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Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
- 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.
- In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
- In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
- Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
- It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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