Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
(The Emperor Of Ice-cream)
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The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.Wallace Stevens
Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
In the poverty of their words,
Of the planet of which they were part.
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Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
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A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
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Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
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The poem of the act of the mind.
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