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Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
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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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Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
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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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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
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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.
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Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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