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Wallace Stevens Quote
 | “On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter's death.” ―Wallace Stevens Source/Notes: Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942) |
| “I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.” ―Wallace Stevens Source/Notes: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Harmonium (1923) |
| “In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.” ―Wallace Stevens Source/Notes: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose (2011 edition), Vintage - ISBN: 9780307791863 |
| “One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.” ―Wallace Stevens Source/Notes: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose (2011 edition), Vintage - ISBN: 9780307791863 |
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Wallace Stevens
Born: October 2, 1879
Died: August 2, 1955 (aged 75)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Poet
Bio: Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.
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