Famous quotes containing the words immaculate and/or deception:
“The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
—Marina Tsvetaeva (18921941)