Wallace Stevens Quotes
Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
Quotes to Explore
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
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You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.
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I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.
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How could I be out there and not do anything?
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Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
