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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?


Alfred Russel Wallace

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WALLACE STEVENS Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
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