Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Quote by Wallace Stevens

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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's...

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's...

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does...

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does...

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

All history is modern history

All history is modern history

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a...

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a...

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and...

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and...

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of...

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of...

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our...

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our...

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room...

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room...

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.