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The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
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 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.
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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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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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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
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