"At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a……" — Wallace Stevens
"At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply."
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169 Quotes by Wallace Stevens
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- 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…
- It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that…
- 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…
- Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just…
- Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows…
- 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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