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Wallace Stevens Quotes: Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
         

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.


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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.



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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.



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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.



The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.



Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.



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



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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.



I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.



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At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.



There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

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