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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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