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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. - Wallace Stevens

Money is a kind of poetry. - Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. - Wallace Stevens

The fire burns as the novel taught it how. - Wallace Stevens

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. - Wallace Stevens

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

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. - Wallace Stevens

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

The point of vision and desire are the same. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. - Wallace Stevens

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

The poet is the priest of the invisible. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. - Wallace Stevens

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. - Wallace Stevens

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. - Wallace Stevens #quotes

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