Wallace Stevens
Quotations
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.” -Wallace Stevens
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“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.” -Wallace Stevens
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“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.” -Wallace Stevens
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“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.” -Wallace Stevens
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“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
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“After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” -Wallace Stevens
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“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.” -Wallace Stevens
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens
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