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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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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
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There's no such thing as life or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
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