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God is gracious to some very peculiar people.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?
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The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
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Words of the world are the life of the world.
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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
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I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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