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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?

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 wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
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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's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
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I am what is around me.
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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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They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game the ideal is to suggest.
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If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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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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in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
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Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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