{"author":"Wallace Stevens","author_id":"Wallace+Stevens","total_quotes":69,"quotes":[{"text":"Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["beauty"],"id":6270,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["art","people","comparison "],"id":11112,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["poets"],"id":27039,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["poetry"],"id":32364,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"The poet is the priest of the invisible.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["poets","poetry"],"id":34328,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["poetry","poets"],"id":42416,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,and still they came in watery flocks,because it was spring and the birds had to come,No doubt that soldier's had to be marching,and that the drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["poem","soldiers"],"id":46872,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["poetry"],"id":49311,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"The mind can never be satisfied.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["mind"],"id":53312,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"},{"text":"For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.","author":"Wallace Stevens","tags":["man","snow","the"],"id":72374,"author_id":"Wallace+Stevens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}