Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903 - Wallace Stevens

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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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But to impose is not To discover. To discover an order as of A season, to discover summer and know it, To discover winter and know it well, to find Not to impose, not to have reasoned at all, Out of nothing to have come on major weather, It is possible, possible, possible. It must Be possible. It must be that in time The real will from its crude compoundings come,<p>Seeming at first, a beast disgorged, unlike, Warmed by a desperate milk. To find the real, To be stripped of every fiction except one, The fiction of an absolute — Angel, Be silent in your luminous cloud and hear The luminous melody of proper sound.

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