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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
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Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
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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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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
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