#na

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#defense #defense budget #expenditures #force #gap

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

#like #meaning #most #nature #need

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

#crowd #else #everybody #everybody else #fascinating

The imagination is man's power over nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#man #nature #over #power

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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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

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

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

#bearing #dress #found #god #man

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#human species #including #indifferent #nature #species