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Quote by Wallace Stevens
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the b

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – 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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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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Wallace Stevens
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

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Physical beauty is such a strange thing. – Jock Sturges

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Beauty

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. – Theophile Gautier

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Our live experiences fixed in aphorisms stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart’s blood, as we write with it, darkens into ink. – F.H. Bradley

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The power to investigate is a great public trust. – Emanuel Celler

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