A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.Wallace Stevens
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Wallace Stevens
Beauty is momentary in the mind. The fitful tracing of a portal But in the flesh it is immortal. The Body dies the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of Winter, done repenting.
Wallace Stevens
Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
Wallace Stevens
Realism is a corruption of reality.
Wallace Stevens
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens
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