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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.


John Paul Stevens

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WALLACE STEVENS Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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