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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
— Wallace Stevens
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
— Wallace Stevens
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
— Wallace Stevens
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. — Wallace Stevens
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
— Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
— Wallace Stevens
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
— Wallace Stevens
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.
— Wallace Stevens
There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf. — Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
— Wallace Stevens
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
— Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. — Wallace Stevens
The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully. — Wallace Stevens
Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
— Wallace Stevens
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
— Wallace Stevens
One must read poetry with one's nerves.
— Wallace Stevens
All poetry is experimental poetry.
— Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one ... How high that highest candle lights the dark. — Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a means of redemption.
— Wallace Stevens
The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
— Wallace Stevens
Money is a kind of poetry.
— Wallace Stevens
Unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.
— Wallace Stevens
I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. — Wallace Stevens
I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill. — Wallace Stevens
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
We live in an old chaos of the sun.
— Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
— Wallace Stevens
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
— Wallace Stevens
The lion sleeps in the sun.its nose on its paws.
it can kill a man. — Wallace Stevens
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
— Wallace Stevens
A poem is a meteor.
— Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the scholar's art.
— Wallace Stevens
After a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
— Wallace Stevens
A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. — Wallace Stevens
The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become. — Wallace Stevens
Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
— Wallace Stevens
The stars are putting on their glittering belts,They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment — Wallace Stevens
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
— Wallace Stevens