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Wallace Stevens Quotes

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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud....  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) ...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.  (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) The imagination is man's power over nature  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) A change of style is a change of meaning  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Words of the world are the life of the world  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) A poet’s words are of things that do not exist without the words  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words  (Wallace Stevens Quotes) He tries by a peculiar speech to speak the peculiar potency of the general  (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
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