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Wallace Stevens quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,Within whose burning bosom we deviseOur earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The greatest poverty is not to liveIn a physical world, to feel that one's desireIs too difficult to tell from despair. The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Wallace Stevens quotes: To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace Stevens quotes: God and the imagination are one. God and the imagination are one.
Wallace Stevens quotes: And what's above is in the pastAs sure as all the angels are. And what's above is in the past
As sure as all the angels are.
Wallace Stevens quotes: There is no wing like meaning There is no wing like meaning
Wallace Stevens quotes: It is time that beats in the breast and it is timeThat batters against the mind, silent and proud,The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens quotes: It is good deathThat puts an end to evil death and dies. It is good death
That puts an end to evil death and dies.
Wallace Stevens quotes: It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerkedAnd tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun. It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
Wallace Stevens quotes: RevolutionIs the affair of logical lunatics. Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics.
Wallace Stevens quotes: In a world of universal povertyThe philosophers alone will be fatAgainst the autumn windsIn an autumn that will be perpetual. In a world of universal poverty
The philosophers alone will be fat
Against the autumn winds
In an autumn that will be perpetual.
Wallace Stevens quotes: It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The muddy rivers of springAre snarlingUnder the muddy skies.The mind is muddy. The muddy rivers of spring
Are snarling
Under the muddy skies.
The mind is muddy.
Wallace Stevens quotes: To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully. The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.
Wallace Stevens quotes: At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
Wallace Stevens quotes: One must read poetry with one's nerves. One must read poetry with one's nerves.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.There are things in a man besides his reason. Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
There are things in a man besides his reason.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The summer night is like a perfection of thought. The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903 Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903
Wallace Stevens quotes: The wind,Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,Came bluntly thundering, more terribleThan the revenge of music on bassoons. The wind,
Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,
Came bluntly thundering, more terrible
Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Money is a kind of poetry. Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The fire burns as the novel taught it how. The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Anything is beautiful if you say it is. Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
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 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: I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
Wallace Stevens quotes: It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Wallace Stevens quotes: A change of style is a change of meaning. A change of style is a change of meaning.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things. Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Children picking up our bonesWill never know that these were onceAs quick as foxes on the hill; Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
Wallace Stevens quotes: The physical world is meaningless tonightAnd there is no other. The physical world is meaningless tonight
And there is no other.
Wallace Stevens quotes: I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction. I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The palm stands on the edge of space.The wind moves slowly in the branches.The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down. The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
Wallace Stevens quotes: God is in me or else is not at all. God is in me or else is not at all.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,Then bathed its body in the leaping lake. The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Poetry is a means of redemption. Poetry is a means of redemption.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Disillusion is the last illusion. Disillusion is the last illusion.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parksAnd far beyond the discords of the wind. The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.
Wallace Stevens quotes: A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens quotes: It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are. It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it. The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens quotes: They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar. They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.
Wallace Stevens quotes: BeholdThe approach of him whom none believes,Whom all believe that all believe,A pagan in a varnished car. Behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound The truth is that there comes a time
When we can mourn no more over music
That is so much motionless sound
Wallace Stevens quotes: It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The windy skyCries out a literate despair. The windy sky
Cries out a literate despair.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Out of this same light, out of the central mind,We make a dwelling in the evening air,In which being there together is enough. Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere. Unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The point of vision and desire are the same. The point of vision and desire are the same.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreamsAnd our desires. Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
Wallace Stevens quotes: How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Wallace Stevens quotes: The poet's function is to make his imagination ... become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives. The poet's function is to make his imagination ... become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Wallace Stevens quotes: I have said noTo everything, in order to get at myself.I have wiped away moonlight like mud ... I have said no
To everything, in order to get at myself.
I have wiped away moonlight like mud ...
Wallace Stevens quotes: The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
Wallace Stevens quotes: It is not in the premise that realityIs a solid. It may be a shade that traversesA dust, a force that traverses a shade. It is not in the premise that reality
Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.
Wallace Stevens quotes: A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. 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 quotes: Consider the odd morphology of regret. Consider the odd morphology of regret.
Wallace Stevens quotes: I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door. I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation. Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
Wallace Stevens quotes: After the final no there comes a yes. After the final no there comes a yes.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Unless we believe in the hero, what is thereTo believe? Incisive what, the fellowOf what good. Devise. Make him of mud ... 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: Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point. Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Imagination is the will of things ... Imagination is the will of things ...
Wallace Stevens quotes: The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Wallace Stevens quotes: After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends. After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods. Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Freedom is like a man who kills himselfEach night, an incessant butcher, whose knifeGrows sharp in blood. Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The mind can never be satisfied. The mind can never be satisfied.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies. The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
Wallace Stevens quotes: For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens quotes: What is there in life except one's ideas,Good air, good friend, what is there in life? What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Wallace Stevens quotes: All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The mind is smaller than the eye. The mind is smaller than the eye.
Wallace Stevens quotes: I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss. I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
Wallace Stevens quotes: I was the world in which I walked. I was the world in which I walked.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The lion sleeps in the sun.its nose on its paws.it can kill a man. The lion sleeps in the sun.
its nose on its paws.
it can kill a man.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
Wallace Stevens quotes: A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words. A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Cold is our element and winter's airBrings voices as of lions coming down. Cold is our element and winter's air
Brings voices as of lions coming down.
Wallace Stevens quotes: A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The seaSevers not only lands but also selves. The sea
Severs not only lands but also selves.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
Wallace Stevens quotes: How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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. 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: Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches. Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches. The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.
Wallace Stevens quotes: We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession. We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
Wallace Stevens quotes: The word is the making of the world The word is the making of the world
Wallace Stevens quotes: The reader became the book; and summer nightWas like the conscious being of the book. The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
Wallace Stevens quotes: Above the forest of the parakeets,A parakeet of parakeets prevails,A pip of life amid a mort of tails. Above the forest of the parakeets,
A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
Wallace Stevens quotes: One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

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