Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

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• Wallace Stevens:

  The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware

• Wallace Stevens:

  What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclos

• Wallace Stevens:

  Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

• Wallace Stevens:

  Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in whic

• Wallace Stevens:

  It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up wit

• Wallace Stevens:

  Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

• Wallace Stevens:

  Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

• Wallace Stevens:

  The poet is the priest of the invisible.

• Wallace Stevens:

  The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

• Wallace Stevens:

  In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.