“ The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly. ”
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“ I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me. ”
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“ After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends. ”
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“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after. ”
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“ The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become. ”
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“ The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet and the world was calm. The words were spoken as if there was no book, Except that the reader leaned above the page, Wanted to lean, wanted much to be The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom The summer night is like a perfection of thought. The house was quiet because it had to be. The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind: The access of perfection to the page. And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world, In which there is no other meaning, itself Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself Is the reader leaning late and reading there. ”
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“ The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds For the outlook that would be right, Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion: The exact rock where his inexactness Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged Where he could lie and gazing down at the sea, Recognize his unique and solitary home. ”
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“ Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of icecream. ”
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“ After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir. ”
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“ A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. ”
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“ The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ”
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“ A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one. ”
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“ After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends. ”
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“ The Plot Against The Giant First Girl When this yokel comes maundering, Whetting his hacker, I shall run before him, Diffusing the civilest odors Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers. It will check him. Second Girl I shall run before him, Arching cloths besprinkled with colors As small as fisheggs. The threads Will abash him. Third Girl Oh, la...le pauvre! I shall run before him, With a curious puffing. He will bend his ear then. I shall whisper Heavenly labials in a world of gutturals. It will undo him. ”
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“ After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun. ”
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