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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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There's no such thing as life or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.
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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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God is in me or else is not at all.
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The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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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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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
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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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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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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
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The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
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