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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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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
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A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
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