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“Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.”

Writing Humans Whole Dream Race Fate Poet Terrible Solitude Defeat Torn Propositions Eccentric

Book:Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens

Source: Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens

“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.”

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Book:The Lives of the English Poets

Source: The Lives of the English Poets

“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.”

Purpose Poet Defeat Familiar

Book:The Lives of the English Poets

Source: The Lives of the English Poets

“Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.”

Care Artist Poet Materials Glory Defeat

Book:The Glory of the Conquered

Source: The Glory of the Conquered

“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.”

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Author:James Dickey