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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Power, Growth
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.461, Vintage

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Thinking, Imagination
Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Beauty, Mind
Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Essence, Redemption
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Country, Blue
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.359, Vintage

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Character, Weather
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.192, Vintage

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

Wallace Stevens
Life, Men, Ignorant
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.231, Vintage

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