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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Make the visible a little hard to see.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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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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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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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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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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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
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Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
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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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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The imperfect is our paradise.
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