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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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