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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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I am what is around me.
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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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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
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It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.
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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.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
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I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
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Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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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 poet is the priest of the invisible.
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I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.
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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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