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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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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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It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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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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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.
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