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Quote by Wallace Stevens
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy

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

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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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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Myths, Mythology
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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Myths, Mythology

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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Myths, Mythology

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Myths, Mythology

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

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Myths, Mythology

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