“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”
Other Wallace Stevens Quotes
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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