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Great Saying By Great Authors Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in…
- The mind is the great poem ofwinter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice....
- To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsenseand cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family…
- And the whole of the soul, Swenson, As every man in Sweden will concede, Still hankers after lions, or, toshift, Still hankers after sovereign images
- To-morrow when the sun, For all your images, Comes up as the sun, bull fire, Your images will have left No shadow of themselves.
- The President has apples on the table And barefoot servants round him, who adjust The curtains to a metaphysicalt And the banners of the nationflutter,…
- My titillations have no foot-notes And their memorials are the phrases Of idiosyncratic music.
- The truth in a calm world, In which there is no other meaning, itself Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself Is the reader…
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