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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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Wallace Stevens
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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. – Wallace Stevens

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Myths, Mythology
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Wallace Stevens
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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Imagination
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, its the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac

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Poetry

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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Poetry

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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Poetry

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Capital punishment: The income tax. – Jeff Hayes

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Butterflies

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih

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Beauty

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown

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Happiness