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About Wallace Stevens
American modernist poet
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he lived from 1879 to 1955. He is known for writing poems that shaped American modernism while also working much of his life in the insurance business. He studied at Harvard and later at New York Law School before settling into a long career as an insurance executive in Hartford, Connecticut. His poetry is often noted for its careful language, philosophical reach, and attention to imagination, perception, and the relationship between reality and the mind.
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- “What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of th…”Wallace Stevens
- “To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of lif…”Wallace Stevens
- “The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The ex…”Wallace Stevens
- “The Plot Against The GiantFirst GirlWhen this yokel comes maundering,Whetting his hacker,I shall run before h…”Wallace Stevens
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