Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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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
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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The poem of the act of the mind.
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It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
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