Literature
- "Indian River" (Stevens poem), a 1917 poem by Wallace Stevens
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“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
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“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
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