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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.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.
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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
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God is in me or else is not at all.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.
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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
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Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
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Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
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I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.
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Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
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Life is not free from its forms.
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