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

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Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. – Wallace Stevens

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Morning
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Wallace Stevens
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Other Quotes from
Triviality, Pettiness
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. – Richard Armour

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Triviality, Pettiness

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

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. – James Baldwin

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Kwanzaa

You are at enmity with yourself. – Jacob Boehme

Category:
Conflict

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friendship

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken,
and yet the cold blue word is spoken:
say goodbye now to the Sun,
the days of love and leaves are done. – R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin

Category:
Endings