Wallace Stevens quotes - page 13

Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness; And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings. (Wallace Stevens)
One might have thought of sight, but who could think Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees? View quote
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A thing final in itself and, therefore, good: One of the vast repetitions final in Themselves and, therefore, good. View quote
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To be young is all there is in the world. View quote
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Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined. View quote
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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. View quote
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Bethou him, you And you, bethou him and bethou. It is A sound like any other. It will end. View quote
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So many selves, so many sensuous worlds, As if the air, the mid-day air, was swarming With the metaphysical changes that occur, Merely in living as and where we live. View quote
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What chieftain, walking by himself, crying Most miserable, most victorious. View quote
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To find the real, To be stripped of every fiction except one. View quote
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To be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element? (Wallace Stevens)
The west wind was the music, the motion, the force To which the swans curveted, a will to change, A will to make iris frettings on the blank. View quote
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The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. View quote
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends. View quote
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have. View quote
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True villains are extremely photogenic. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window. View quote
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. View quote
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Anything is beautiful if you say it is. View quote
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Realism is a corruption of reality. (Wallace Stevens)
A change of style is a change of meaning. View quote
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. View quote
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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 a blue guitar'. View quote
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Imagination is the will of things. . . . View quote
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