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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens
Aristotle is a skeleton.
Wallace Stevens
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
Wallace Stevens
Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
Wallace Stevens
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens
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The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
George Harrison
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
Francis Ford Coppola
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(About Imagination & Visualization, Life, Metaphysics, Mind)
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.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens
Aristotle is a skeleton.
Wallace Stevens
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
Wallace Stevens
Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
Wallace Stevens
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens
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Related Authors: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Walt Whitman - Novalis - Ogden Nash - Sylvia Plath - Anne Sexton - John Keats - Virgil
Based on Topics: Imagination & Visualization Quotes, Life Quotes, Metaphysics Quotes, Mind Quotes
Based on Keywords: artifice
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
George Harrison
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
Francis Ford Coppola