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Wallace Stevens was a 19th-century American poet. Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.”
— Wallace Stevens
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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.”
— Wallace Stevens
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
— Wallace Stevens
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“The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound”
— Wallace Stevens
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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.”
— Wallace Stevens
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“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
— Wallace Stevens
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