The point of vision and desire are the same.

Quote by Wallace Stevens

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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal....

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal....

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

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 genuine artist is never rue to life. He sees what is real, but not...

The genuine artist is never rue to life. He sees what is real, but not...

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.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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...

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...

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

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

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans...

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans...

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on...

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on...

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

All history is modern history

All history is modern history

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.

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers...

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers...

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...

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...

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

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