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"A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman" — Wallace Stevens
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them." — Wallace Stevens
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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into." — Wallace Stevens
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"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs." — Wallace Stevens
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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." — Wallace Stevens
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"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence." — Wallace Stevens
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"They said, "You have a blue guitar,/ You do not play things as they are."/ The man replied, "Things as they are/ Are changed upon a blue guitar."" — Wallace Stevens
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"Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces." — Wallace Stevens
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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking." — Wallace Stevens
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"Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow." — Wallace Stevens
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"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good." — Wallace Stevens
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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." — Wallace Stevens
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"A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have." — Wallace Stevens
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"The poet makes silk dresses out of worms" — Wallace Stevens
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"Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives." — Wallace Stevens
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom." — Wallace Stevens
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"They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''" — Wallace Stevens
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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
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"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility." — Wallace Stevens
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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." — Wallace Stevens
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"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires" — Wallace Stevens
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