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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.
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All poetry is experimental poetry.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.
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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
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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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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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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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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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