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"Poetry is a search for the inexplicable."
"In being more than an exception, part,Though an heroic part, of the commonal. The major abstraction is the commonal, The inanimate, difficult visage."

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.
"Poetry is a search for the inexplicable."
"The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us."
"A poem should be a part of ones sense of life."
"Let’s see the very thing and nothing else. Let’s see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky Without evasion by a single metaphor. Look at it in its essential barrenness And say this, this is the centre that I seek."
"Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird."
"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."