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" Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. "
Wallace Stevens
Value
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" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "
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" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "
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" Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. "
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" 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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" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "
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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. "
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" The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. "
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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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" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "
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" As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "
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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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" Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. "
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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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