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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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Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
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Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.
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I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
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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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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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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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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
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