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The word is the making of the world

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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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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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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All poetry is experimental poetry.
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True villains are extremely photogenic.
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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
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It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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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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The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
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...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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