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«After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.»
«Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.»
«Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Reading
| Keywords:
bottom, echoes, familiar, listening, On Your Toes, The Bottom, toes, Wade, waded, wades, wading
«I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blackbird, blackbirds, inflection, innuendo, innuendoes, whistled, whistles, whistling
«Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires»
«In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all»
«A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.»
«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.»
«Money is a kind of poetry.»
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