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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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Life is not free from its forms.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
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