Wallace Stevens

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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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

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Wallace Stevens

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. ↗

— 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

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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