Wallace Stevens Quotes

In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

Wallace Stevens

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• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
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• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • Earth
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  • Sun

• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Joy
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• Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Great
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• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Rude

• Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide,Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time.The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?And I would be the oneTo hold you down,Kiss you so hardI'll take your breath away.And after, I'd wipe away the tears,Just close your eyes dear.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Night

• Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
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• The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Solitude

• There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Spring
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• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Freedom
  • Evil
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• Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Solitude

• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Color
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• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Wrong

• Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Littles
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• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude