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Man Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
- I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its…
- They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are /…
- Man is an eternal sophomore.
- The imagination is man's power over nature.
- A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- 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,…
- It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
- Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise…
- The mind is the great poem ofwinter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice....
- 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
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle