Wallace Stevens Quotes
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Poetry is the scholar's art.
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The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.
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We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
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Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.
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You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
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I was the world in which I walked.
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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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I am what is around me.
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The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
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We live in an old chaos of the sun.
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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.
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
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Imagination is the will of things. . . .
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Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
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All poetry is experimental poetry.
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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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Life is not free from its forms.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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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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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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