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It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.
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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
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It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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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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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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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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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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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Next to love is the desire for love.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
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To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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Make the visible a little hard to see.
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What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
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If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
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