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(66 votes)  Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(66 votes)  To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(65 votes)  Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson

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(64 votes)  The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(63 votes)  The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(61 votes)  They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(60 votes)  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.

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(55 votes)  The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Ray Stevens

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