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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. "
Wallace Stevens
Life
True
Art
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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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" Money is a kind of poetry. "
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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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" The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. "
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" 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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" After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. "
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" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "
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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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" Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "
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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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" The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. "
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" As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "
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" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "
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" Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. "
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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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" 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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" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "
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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 point of vision and desire are the same. "
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" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "
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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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" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "
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" Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. "
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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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" One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. "
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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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