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" How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. "
Wallace Stevens
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" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "
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" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "
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" One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. "
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" Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. "
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" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "
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" It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. "
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" It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. "
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" Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. "
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" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "
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" As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "
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" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "
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" A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. "
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Like
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" Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. "
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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. "
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" New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. "
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" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
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Your
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" The fire burns as the novel taught it how. "
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" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "
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Accuracy
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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. "
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Aspirations
Same
" Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. "
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Man
Nature
" Money is a kind of poetry. "
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" If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. "
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" The imagination is man's power over nature. "
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" The poet is the priest of the invisible. "
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" Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. "
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Which
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" The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. "
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" The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. "
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Find
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" What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. "
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Eyes
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" After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. "
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" Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. "
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