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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

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Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. – Wallace Stevens

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Religion
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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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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. – Alfred de Vigny

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Poetry

Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Poetry

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

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Art is the daughter of freedom. – Friedrich Schiller

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If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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