In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.Wallace Stevens
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
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