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

Wallace Stevens

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. "

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" A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. "

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

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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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" The poet is the priest of the invisible. "

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" The point of vision and desire are the same. "

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" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "

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

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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

" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "

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

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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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