All history is modern history

Quote by Wallace Stevens

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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the...

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the...

Beauty is momentary in the mind The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the...

Beauty is momentary in the mind The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the...

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone,...

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone,...

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...

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important...

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important...

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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,...

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of...

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of...

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

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...

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature...

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature...

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

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,...

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...

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

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...

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

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