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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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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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