Quote by Wallace Stevens
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, to

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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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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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyones concern and like vampires they suck our lifes blood. – Bette Davis

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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Our strength grows out of our weakness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest. – G. Emmons

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell

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