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True villains are extremely photogenic.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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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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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 poet is the priest of the invisible.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
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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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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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