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11 quotesAs life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Literature
Wallace Stevens
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Complexity
Wallace Stevens
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Literature
Wallace Stevens
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Truth
Wallace Stevens
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Spring
Wallace Stevens
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
Imagination
Wallace Stevens
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry and Poets
Wallace Stevens
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wallace Stevens
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun