“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”
James P. Carse American academic
Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
Journal entry (4 March 1906); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 8
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