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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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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
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The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
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It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
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An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
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