All Wallace Stevens Quotes
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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