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"New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."
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"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
"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."
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"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."
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