Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. — Quoted

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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”

Wallace Stevens · Nature

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Wallace Stevens

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Morning

Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Imagination

Wallace Stevens

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Nature

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Loneliness