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Wallace Stevens
American
Poet
Born:
Oct 2
,
1879
Died:
Aug 2
,
1955
Everything
Life
Nature
People
Poet
Which
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens
Death
Dreams
Alone
Mother
Beauty
Our
Our Dreams
Shall
Come
Fulfillment
Hence
Her
Desires
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
Day
Nature
Morning
King
Sun
Throne
Like
Noon
Sitting
Pageant
Evening
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
Poet
Philosopher
Merely
Proves
Existence
Exists
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Wallace Stevens
Fruit
Gone
Our
Bloom
Thereof
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
Man
Woman
World
Poet
Way
Poetry
Looks
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens
Life
Art
Real Life
Sees
Through
Never
He
True
Like
Genuine
Real
Go
Normally
Artist
Actor
Aware
Play
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens
Life
More
Terrible
Literature
Grows
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens
Nature
Man
Power
Imagination
Over
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens
Looking
Field
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Horribly
Mirrors
Unreal
Crowd
Foolish
New
Antagonistic
Undoubtedly
Walking
York
New York
Tireless
Interests
Fascinating
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens
Nature
Poem
Like
Most
Does
Often
Meaning
Things
Need
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens
Fire
How
Taught
Burns
Novel
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