Wallace Stevens Quotes About Beauty
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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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Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
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