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«Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
fitful, in the flesh, momentary, portal, portals, tracing
«The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.»
«The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
ardor, excites, scholars, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up
«The poet is the priest of the invisible»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Thought
| Keywords:
epidemic, epidemics, infection, infections
«What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.»
«The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.»
«Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
camera, gulp, gulping, including, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating
«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.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
asserted, enlarging, incoherence, intricacies, intricacy, local, mythologies, poetic
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