Wallace Stevens quotes - page 2

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. (Wallace Stevens)
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. View quote
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One reads poetry with one's nerves. View quote
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God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist). View quote
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A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one. View quote
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad. View quote
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I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door. View quote
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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. View quote
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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. View quote
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Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. View quote
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. (Wallace Stevens)
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. View quote
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The imperfect is our paradise. View quote
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly. View quote
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The mind can never be satisfied. View quote
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. View quote
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. View quote
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I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss. View quote
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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me. View quote
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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. View quote
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion. (Wallace Stevens)
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. View quote
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Man is an eternal sophomore. View quote
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The death of one god is the death of all. View quote
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems. View quote
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