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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.
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 greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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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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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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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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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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It is the belief and not the god that counts.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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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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It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
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The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
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