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Life is not free from its forms.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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God and the imagination are one.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
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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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There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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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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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
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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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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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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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