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Wallace Stevens föddes den October 2nd 1879 och dog den 2 August 1955 - whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind.
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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.

 I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after

 I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after

 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.

 In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all

 In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

 Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

 It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

 It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life

 It's so fucking controlled. Poetry must not become a hospital.

 Just as my fingers on the keys / Make music, so the selfsame sounds / On my spirit make a music, too. / Music is feeling, then, not sound.

 Money is a kind of poetry.

 Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

 Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

 Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.


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