"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
-Wallace Stevens
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"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.“
-Wallace Stevens
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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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"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."
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"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
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"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."
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"Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
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"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."
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"All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep."
-Ralph Venning
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
-L. Wolfe Gilbert
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"The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring."
-Ambrose Philips
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"I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion."
-Isaac Albeniz
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