Wallace Stevens quotes and words of wisdom |  | "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 the blue
guitar."" | |  | Found in the topic Music.
| | | "Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully." | | | Found in the topic Poetry.
| | | "Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of
thinking." | | | Found in the topic Observe.
| | | "Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky,
reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter
timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing
with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged
celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the
power of the Universe. There." | | | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." | | | Found in the topic Nature.
| | | "One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of
the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to
behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant
glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of
the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land,
full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener,
who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not
there, and the nothing that is." | | | Found in the topic Snow.
| | | "Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain,
a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of
gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant.
your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant
mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together
we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your
beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don"t forget me," you
whispered the day you died. I won"t." | | | Found in the topic Garden.
| | | "Thought tends to collect in pools." | | | Found in the topic Proverb.
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Interesting Quotes
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?Bertolt Brecht - German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.Joan Klempner
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