The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheetOn which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
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Just as my fingers on the keys Make music, so the selfsame sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound.
Wallace Stevens
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
Wallace Stevens
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.
Wallace Stevens
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are'. The man replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon a blue guitar'.
Wallace Stevens
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