“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
Wallace Stevens
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“We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
Wallace Stevens
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“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
Wallace Stevens
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“We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.”
Wallace Stevens
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“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
Wallace Stevens
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
Wallace Stevens
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“Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.”
Wallace Stevens
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“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
Wallace Stevens
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“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
Wallace Stevens
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“The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.”
Wallace Stevens
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“Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.”
Wallace Stevens
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“One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.”
Wallace Stevens
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“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
Wallace Stevens
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“As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.”
Wallace Stevens
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“The imagination is man’s power over nature.”
Wallace Stevens
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