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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?
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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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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
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