"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."

Location, Walking

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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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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

Poetry, People, Feeling, Listening

"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."

Imagination, Nature, Words, World

"The imagination is man's power over nature."

Imagination, Nature, Power, Man

"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."

Life, Art, Actors, Artist

"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

Life, Poetry

"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."

Nature, God, Dress, Man

"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."

Thought, Thoughts

"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."

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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."

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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."

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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."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

Location, Walking

"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

James Stockdale, American Soldier

Location, Beach, Practice

"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

Location, London

"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."

Gene Wolfe, American Writer

Location, School, Voice

"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."

Bruce Beresford, Australian Director

Location, Feet, Mountains

"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

Location, London, Space

"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."

Peter Max, American Artist

Location, America, Nothing, Will

"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

Location, End, First, Years

"Paris ain't much of a town."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

Location, Paris

"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."

Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

Location, Brazil