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Wallace Stevens1879–1955

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Wallace Stevens on philosophy

The Snow Man (1921)

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Nature Philosophy

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Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
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Or the beauty of innuendoes,
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
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