Quote #105
Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
More from Wallace Stevens
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- Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.
- Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.
- My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
- We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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- Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake, A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition grow…