Quotes by Wallace Stevens

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

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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

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

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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with...

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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of...

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

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

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

#Wallace Stevens