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Wallace Stevens Inspirational Quotes (263)

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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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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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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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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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Poetry is the scholar's art.
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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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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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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
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in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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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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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
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Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
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The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
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Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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