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" The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. "
Wallace Stevens
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" The imagination is man's power over nature. "
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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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" 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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" One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. "
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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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" 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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" It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. "
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" It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. "
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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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" Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. "
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" In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. "
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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 only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "
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" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "
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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. "
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" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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