Exquisite Truth Quotes by Wallace Stevens

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• How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
• Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a…
• It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north…
• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
• LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it…
• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like…
• Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in…
• We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
• Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
• It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

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