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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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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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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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Beauty
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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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I think poetry is best read to oneself. – Rickie Lee Jones

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you dont have to tell anyone youre doing it. – Roger McGough

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Poetry

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton

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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. – Ashley Smith

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