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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
Written by Wallace Stevens
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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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Written by Wallace Stevens
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.
Written by Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Written by Wallace Stevens
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.
Written by Wallace Stevens
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Written by Wallace Stevens
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Written by Wallace Stevens
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Written by Wallace Stevens
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.
Written by Wallace Stevens
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Written by Wallace Stevens
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Written by Wallace Stevens
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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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Written by Wallace Stevens
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Written by Wallace Stevens
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Written by Wallace Stevens
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Written by Wallace Stevens
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Written by Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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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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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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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.
Written by Wallace Stevens
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Written by Wallace Stevens

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