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The point of vision and desire are the same.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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