Wallace Stevens's Quotes

Wallace Stevens's Quotes 53

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with...

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar...

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and...

Money is a kind of poetry.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the...

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights...

The imagination is man's power over nature.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world...

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment...

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of...

Poetry is the scholar's art.

"A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.

"The way through the world

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

"The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

"I do not know which to prefer

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