Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

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I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it
was upon a hill.

Wallace Stevens

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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

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After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is the scholar's art.

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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

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The mind can never be satisfied.

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