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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The fire burns as the novel taught it how. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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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

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The poet is the priest of the invisible. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Wallace Stevens

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