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To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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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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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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