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Man is an eternal sophomore.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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