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Disillusion is the last illusion.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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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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The mind can never be satisfied.
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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
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