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Quote by Wallace Stevens
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and r

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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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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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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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. – Alfred de Vigny

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. – Carol Ann Duffy

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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove

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