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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens
Mind
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens
Life
Literature
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens
Boredom
Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens
Money
Poetry
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens
Art
Religion
People
Intolerance
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens
Nature
Meaning
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
Man
Woman
World
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Wallace Stevens
Future
World
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens
Death
Dreams
Mother
Beauty
Fulfillment
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
Life
Poetry
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens
Thoughts
Trifles
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Wallace Stevens
Beauty
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens
Ignorance
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens
Fire
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens
Accuracy
Observation
Thinking