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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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 am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
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