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It must be visible or invisible, Invisible or visible or both: A seeing and unseeing in the eye. (Wallace Stevens)
It is possible, possible, possible. View quote
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Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet's metaphors. View quote
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Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor, Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost. View quote
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What light requires a day to do, and by day I mean a kind of Biblical revolution of time, the imagination does in the twinkling of an eye. View quote
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Beyond which fact could not progress as fact. View quote
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What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. View quote
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Between, but of. He chose to include the things That in each other are included, the whole, The complicate, the amassing harmony. View quote
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Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. View quote
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That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way. View quote
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Out of nothing to have come on major weather. (Wallace Stevens)
Am I not, Myself, only half a figure of a sort, A figure half seen, or seen for a moment, a man Of the mind, an apparition appareled in Apparels of such lightest look that a turn Of my shoulders and quickly, too quickly, I am gone? View quote
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Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence. View quote
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We more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist. View quote
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If there must be a god in the house, let him be one That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness. View quote
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If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the room and on the stair. View quote
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Does not see these separate figures one by one, And yet see only one. View quote
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The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea. View quote
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. View quote
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Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart. View quote
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There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows. (Wallace Stevens)
I am the woman stripped more nakedly Than nakedness, standing before an inflexible Order, saying I am the contemplated spouse. View quote
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As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in which. View quote
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This may be a gross exaggeration of a very simple matter. But perhaps the same is true of many of the more prodigious things of life and death. View quote
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The difficultest rigor is forthwith, On the image of what we see, to catch from that Irrational moment its unreasoning. View quote
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