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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
Whistling
Know
Just
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" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "
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" It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. "
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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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" Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. "
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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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" As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "
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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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" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "
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" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "
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" 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. "
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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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Mirrors
" Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. "
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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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After
World
" The poet is the priest of the invisible. "
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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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" It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. "
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" The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. "
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Inspirational
Most
" 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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" 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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Furniture
More
" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "
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" The imagination is man's power over nature. "
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" The fire burns as the novel taught it how. "
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" Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. "
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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. "
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" The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. "
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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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" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "
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