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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
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What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.
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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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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?
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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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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.
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Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
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