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" Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. "
Wallace Stevens
Religion
Comparison
People
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" The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. "
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Reason
" 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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Thoughts
Furniture
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" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "
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Woman
Way
Poetry
" 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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Life
True
Art
" One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. "
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Important
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" Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. "
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Infection
Thought
Thoughts
" Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. "
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Nothing
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" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "
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Observation
Accuracy
Thinking
" 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. "
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Life
Live
Mind
" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "
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Complicated
Everything
Life
" 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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People
Listening
Boy
" Money is a kind of poetry. "
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Money
Kind
Poetry
" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "
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Lights
Imagination
Dark
" A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. "
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Most
Like
Meaning
" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "
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Ignorance
Chief
Asset
" 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
" 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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People
Good
Deal
" 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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Evening
Day
Sun
" The imagination is man's power over nature. "
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Over
Man
Nature
" It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. "
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Unknown
Boredom
Up
" The point of vision and desire are the same. "
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Same
Desire
Point
" Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. "
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Reality
Which
Realities
" Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. "
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Dreams
Death
Alone
" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
Wallace Stevens
Words
Your
Love
" 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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Hopes
Aspirations
Same
" Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "
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Walk
Around
Lake
" The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. "
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Find
Way
World
" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "
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Nature
Surprise
Spring
" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "
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Emperor
Ice
Cream
" The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. "
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