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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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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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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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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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The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
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Next to love is the desire for love.
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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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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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The imperfect is our paradise.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
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The reader became the book and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
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It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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