Meandering we go on and on . . .

Today is the birthday of Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955), lawyer, businessman and Modernist poet.

"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun."
- Wallace Stevens

"The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things."
- Wallace Stevens

"I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me."
- Wallace Stevens

"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
- Wallace Stevens

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. "
- Wallace Stevens

"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark."
- Wallace Stevens

"The first idea was not our own."
- Wallace Stevens

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