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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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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 reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.
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Realism is a corruption of reality.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
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