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What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
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It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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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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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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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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