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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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Next to love is the desire for love.
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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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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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People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
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