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Wallace Stevens Quotes: The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
         

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.


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



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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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