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Wallace Stevens Quotes about Silence

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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty, Music, Silence

'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' (1923)

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

Wallace Stevens

Dirty, Silence, Speech

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.157, Knopf

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Wallace Stevens

Fall, Passion, Silence

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.287, Vintage

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