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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
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Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
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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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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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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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Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
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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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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.
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