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The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
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Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
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