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Wallace Stevens Quotes

«Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.»
«The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | Keywords: Beautiful Thing
«The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it»
«It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.»
«The poet is the priest of the invisible»
«Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.»
«What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.»
«The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | Keywords: The Philosopher
«Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.»
«All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.»

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