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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
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Life is the elimination of what is dead.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.
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The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
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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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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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I am what is around me.
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
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Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
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