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Life is not free from its forms.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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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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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.
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the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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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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Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
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The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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