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It is the belief and not the god that counts.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

Wallace Stevens
Belief
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.243, Vintage

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

Wallace Stevens
Past, Might, Belief
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.151, Vintage

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Wallace Stevens
Finals, Fiction, Belief
'Asides on the Oboe'

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

Wallace Stevens
Belief, Fury, Magnificent
Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.446, Univ of California Press

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