A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a s.
Wallace Stevens
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend
Wallace Stevens
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Wallace Stevens
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