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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.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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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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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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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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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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Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
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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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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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The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
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It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
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