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A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
It’s not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed: The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps, the aureole above the humming house... It can never be satisfied, the mind, never (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
What is there in life except one’s ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe? (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The wind in which the dead leaves blow. Here I inhale profounder strength and as I am, I speak and move and things are as I think they are and say they are on the blue guitar (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to the gibberish of the vulgate and back again (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hell and bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers and scattered them about, no two alike (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
We reason of these things with later reason and we make of what we see, what we see clearly and have seen, a place dependent on ourselves (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were and what she felt fought off the barest phrase (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Poetry is a purging of the world’s poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
The poet is a God, or, the young poet is a God. The old poet is a tramp (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems (Wallace Stevens Quotes)
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces (Wallace Stevens Quotes)