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Quote by Wallace Stevens
How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that f

How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. – 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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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. – Wallace Stevens

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alone
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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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Poetry
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Triviality, Pettiness
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Triviality, Pettiness

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. – Richard Armour

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Triviality, Pettiness

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing

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Triviality, Pettiness

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