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Wallace Stevens Quotes: The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
         

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.


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The imagination is one of the forces of nature.



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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.



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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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