Quote by Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

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

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Snow
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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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Poetry
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry

Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

Im not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent – you cant just do it like that. – Samantha Morton

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Poetry

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Poetry

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It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. – Allen Klein

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