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Words of the world are the life of the world.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
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God is gracious to some very peculiar people.
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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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