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Quote by Wallace Stevens
Among twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird. – Wallace Stevens

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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

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alone
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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. – Wallace Stevens

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Beauty
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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Other Quotes from
Snow
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And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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There was an old man of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
When asked, – Rudyard Kipling

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Snow

A snowflake is one of Gods most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! – Anon.

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Snow

In the town of The Pas, Manitoba
It snows on the first of Octoba
From then, for six months,
It thaws only once
And never when I am quite soba. – Anon.

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Snow

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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. – Sting

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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans. – Bill Walton

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