Wallace Stevens

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life in the insurance industry.

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Latest Post “Right-Wing Populism” and Other Cynical Plots to Use Leftist Rhetoric in Service of Right-Wing Goals. by Andrew D. Chapman public
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We Teach Our Children to Share, Then What?

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Embodiments are useful fictions as long as you realize they are fiction and have one foot firmly planted on the function of it all.

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Forget About Taxes

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The reality of a tax base presupposes expenditures and a monetary economic system. How is it that we could eliminate a monetary policy altogether? Would there be a need for taxes? Does eliminating taxes solve the problem of governance on a global scale?

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There Are Good Poets and Not So Good Poets

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Wallace Stevens
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The Language Animal Spectrum

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Gustave Flaubert
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I'll Try Anything Once

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Emily Dickinson
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Ambiguity Lightens the Mood or Deadens the Discourse

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Voltaire
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Spock or Sherlock?

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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Time Outs

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Blaise Pascal