Wallace Stevens Quotes on Observation
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The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes.
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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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 growing certain and A wait within that certainty, a rest In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake. Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence
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A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.