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Wallace Stevens

" To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. "

Wallace Stevens

Imagination , Mind , Life , Metaphysics

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" Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "

Wallace Stevens

Truth

" Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. "

Wallace Stevens

Reality

" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "

Wallace Stevens

Spring , Poor , Silly

" 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. "

Wallace Stevens

People , Poetry , Water , Feeling , Listening

" 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

God , Man , Nature , Style , Dress

" Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. "

Wallace Stevens

God , Man , Nature , Style , Dress

" One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. "

Wallace Stevens

Time , Being

" Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. "

Wallace Stevens

Nothing , Literature , English , American , Sensibility

" Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. "

Wallace Stevens

Value

" The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. "

Wallace Stevens

Sun , Day , Evening

" 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

Walking

" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "

Wallace Stevens

Thinking , Observation , Accuracy

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