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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#feel #i #i feel #limelight #out

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right? ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#bit #i #ideally #little #little bit

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#aspirations #bible #distribution #fears #hopes

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bottom #boy #echoes #familiar #feeling

The fire burns as the novel taught it how. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#fire #how #novel #taught

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#artist #aware #genuine #go #life

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#difficult #find #more #than #through

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#am #any #campaign #enough #experienced

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#america #color #every #every man #face

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#another #becomes #generation #height #often