It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace StevensChildren picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
Wallace StevensThey said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
Wallace StevensSo, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.
Wallace Stevens