Wallace Stevens Quotes
What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
Wallace Stevens
Quotes to Explore
When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
Naomi Klein
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung
Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
Zach Galligan
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary
My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
Samira Wiley
No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
Adam Mansbach
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
Gary Hamel
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
C. S. Lewis
Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
Bill Medley
The Righteous Brothers
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
Wallace Stevens