Is there no change of death in paradise?
(Sunday Morning)
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.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.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
Wallace Stevens
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