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The word is the making of the world

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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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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Make the visible a little hard to see.
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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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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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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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