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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
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Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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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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The mind can never be satisfied.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
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The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
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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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It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
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If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
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It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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Life is not free from its forms.
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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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Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
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