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Wallace Stevens Inspirational Quotes (263)

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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
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What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
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The mind is smaller than the eye.
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The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
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The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
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The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
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It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
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Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
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It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.
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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?
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The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.
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The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
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The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
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