That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.


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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...
WALLACE STEVENS
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS
Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE
When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE
I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE
I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE
There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE
People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE
Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE
Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN
Um, Larry likes to coach.
BEN WALLACE
What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win g...
BEN WALLACE
Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.
BEN WALLACE
Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play bas...
BEN WALLACE
It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major...
BEN WALLACE
He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.
BEN WALLACE
I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea...
BEN WALLACE
All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h...
BEN WALLACE
They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all...
BEN WALLACE
That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is...
BEN WALLACE
Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing.
ANDREW WALLACE
We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n...
ANDREW WALLACE
We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
ANDREW WALLACE
We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday].
ANDREW WALLACE
The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have t...
ANDY WALLACE