Quote by Wallace Stevens
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Ste

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

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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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry
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And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Self-Discovery

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. – Mac Anderson

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Self-Discovery

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond

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My connection to the earth is reinforced through the rhythm of the waves. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity. – William Pitt The Elder Chatham

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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth. – Owen Glendower

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A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. – Dogen

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