Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involved In what I know."
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"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involved In what I know."
Wallace Stevens
"I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself;And there I found myself more truly and more strange."
Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems
"“I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after.”"
Wallace Stevens
"“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”"
Wallace Stevens
"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."
Wallace Stevens
"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
Wallace Stevens
"Money is a kind of poetry."
Wallace Stevens
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Wallace Stevens
"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
"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
"The imagination is man's power over nature."
Wallace Stevens
"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
"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
Wallace Stevens
"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."
Wallace Stevens
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
Wallace Stevens
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
Wallace Stevens
"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
"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
Wallace Stevens
"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
Wallace Stevens
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
Wallace Stevens
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