Wallace Stevens Quotes
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We reason of these things with later reason And we make of what we see, what we see clearly And have seen, a place dependent on ourselves.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
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We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.
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The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes.
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Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.
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A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover.
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Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are Twenty men crossing a bridge Into a village.
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.
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Is it he or is it I that experience this?
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I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.