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Quote by Wallace Stevens
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – 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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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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Very few people are original. Theres very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. – Susan Powter

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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? – Anna Letitia Barbauld

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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me Id be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. – Whitney Houston

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. – George Santayana

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