#is

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 poet is the priest of the invisible. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#poet #priest

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#dedication #emotion #frenzied #lifetime #outbursts

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

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#clearly #future #know #led #only

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

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#everybody #fool #happens #his #now

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#animal #back #cannot #generally #handwriting

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cannot #cars #credit #hunger #longer