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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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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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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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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Realism is a corruption of reality.
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We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.
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