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Wallace Stevens Quotes
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Money is a kind of poetry. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
One cannot spend ones time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Ones ignorance is ones chief asset. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
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