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The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
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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 day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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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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The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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