My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.


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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
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
ABEL 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
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
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS
The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS
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
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS
Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
STUART STEVENS
I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
RACHEL STEVENS
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS
I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS
My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS
I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS
I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS
I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS
Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS
It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS
She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS
Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really gett...
CONNIE STEVENS
I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
CONNIE STEVENS
Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.
CONNIE STEVENS
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought...
CAT STEVENS