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Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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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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Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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The mind can never be satisfied.
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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
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Words of the world are the life of the world.
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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
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To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
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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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People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
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