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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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Poetry is a means of redemption.
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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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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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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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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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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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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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I am what is around me.
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What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
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I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.
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