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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 end
To 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 air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. — Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost 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 way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. — 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 sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become. — Wallace Stevens

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. — Wallace Stevens

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends. — 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