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• Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

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  World, Poetry Is, Response

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.13, Knopf

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• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

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  Art, Poetry, Desire

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• The magnificent cause of being,
  The imagination, the one reality
  In this imagined world.

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  Reality, Imagination, World

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• The imperfect is our paradise.
  Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
  Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
  Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

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  Lying, Perfection, Sound

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.218, Vintage

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• Already the new-born children interpret love
  In the voices of mothers.

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  Mother, Children, Voice

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.52, Vintage

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• It is the sun that shares our works.
  The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

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  Moon, Sea, Sun

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.168, Vintage

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• My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

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  People, Tree, Magic

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• Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

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  Real, Night, Opposites

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• At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

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  Light, Sight, Bird

  Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.16, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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  Fire, Taught, Novel

  Wallace Stevens, Jos e Rodr iguez Feo, Beverly Coyle, Alan Filreis (1986). “Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo”, p.19, Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press

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• ...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

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  Writing, Night, Doors

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• One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

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  Inspirational, Ignorance, Assets

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.258, Vintage

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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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  Dwelling, Light, Air

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.452, Vintage

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• The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

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  Yellow, Orange, Skins

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.219, Vintage

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• The tomb in Palestine
  Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
  It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

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  Jesus, Spirit, Graves

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
  That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
  The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

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  Time, Mind, Proud

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.339, Vintage

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• What is one man among so many men?
  What are so many men in such a world?
  Can one man think one thing and think it long?
  Can one man be one thing and be it long?

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  Men, Thinking, Long

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.41, Vintage

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• Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
  There are things in a man besides his reason.

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  Men, August, February

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.351, Vintage

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• Tell X that speech is not dirty silence
  Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

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  Dirty, Silence, Speech

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.157, Knopf

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• Thought tends to collect in pools.

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  Pool

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

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  Belief, Fury, Magnificent

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.446, Univ of California Press

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

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  Dark, Light, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.701, Univ of California Press

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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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  Snow, Listeners

  Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.29, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father,
  Because, in chief, it, only, can defend
  Against itself. At its mercy, we depend
  Upon it.

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  Father, Mind, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.409, Vintage

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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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  Real

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.63, Vintage

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