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A change of style is a change of meaning.

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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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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.
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Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
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There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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God and the imagination are one.
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You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
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The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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