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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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I am what is around me.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.
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The word is the making of the world
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
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It is the belief and not the god that counts.
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I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.
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The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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All poetry is experimental poetry.
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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
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The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.
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