Wallace Stevens Quotes About Desire
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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There is not any haunt of prophecy, Nor any old chimera of the grave, Neither the golden underground, nor isle Melodious, where spirits gat them home, Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured As April's green endures; or will endure Like her remembrance of awakened birds, Or her desire for June and evening, tipped By the consummation of the swallow's wings.
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She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?
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The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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Next to love is the desire for love.
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