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All poetry is experimental poetry.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
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A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
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The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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I am what is around me.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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