#nat

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

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

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#act #also #circumstances #intelligently #man

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#freedom #ideal #means #more #nothing

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#attended #basis #century #great #nations

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#ears #form #had #hard #i

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart! ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#because #feel #feels #generation #good