QUOTES by Wallace Stevens
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A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.
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We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.
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People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.
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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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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
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Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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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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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
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Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;
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Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
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I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
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In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
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The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
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