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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. "

Wallace Stevens

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" The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. "

" Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. "

" 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. "

" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "

" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "

" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "

" 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. "

" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "

" The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. "

" After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. "

" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "

" Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "

" Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. "

" 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. "

" I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. "

" Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. "