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Things Happen For A Reason Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
- For the soldier of time, it breathes a summer sleep, In which his wound is good because life was. No part of him was ever…
- Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms.
- The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, candefend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
- At the piano, scales, arpeggios And chords, the morning exercises, The afternoon's reading, the night's reflection, That's how to produce a virtuoso.
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