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World Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends
- Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
- The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
- Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
- All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
- I was the world in which I walked.
- Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
- An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings…
- The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
- The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
- A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are…
- It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
- Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three…
- I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came…
- It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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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