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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
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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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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
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The imperfect is our paradise.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?
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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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