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Of these beginnings, gay and green, propose the suitable amours. Time will write them down (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)
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind (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)
I do not know which to prefer, the beauty of inflections, or the beauty of innuendos, 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)
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)
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art (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)
We say God and the imagination are one. How high that highest candle lights the dark (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have (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)
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be (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)
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one’s meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me (Wallace Stevens Quotes)