"True villains are extremely photogenic."
"You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence."
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Source: Wallace Stevens (1964). “the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”
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