"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
-Wallace Stevens
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"Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.“
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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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