QUOTES by Wallace Stevens
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They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational
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Reality is the beginning not the end, Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega, Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.
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The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment
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Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...
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Then the sea and heaven rolled as one and from the two came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue.
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After the final no there come a yes, and on that yes a future world depends.
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It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade.
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From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.
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There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things
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The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. p901
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They said"You have a blue guitar You do not play things as they are". The man replied,"things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar".
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Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
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He brushed away the thunder, then the clouds, then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue.
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I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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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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We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.
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It is a world of words to the end of it, / In which nothing solid is its solid self.
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If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
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The palm stands on the edge of space. The wind moves slowly in the branches. The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.
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