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Wallace Stevens quotes

American Poet October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955

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Wallace Stevens quote: "In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images..."
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
Wallace Stevens quote: "Next to love is the desire for love."
Next to love is the desire for love. Wallace Stevens
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of... Wallace Stevens
The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. Wallace Stevens
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. 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
Wallace Stevens quote: "Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and..."
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it."
There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for..."
Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from. The weight of primary noon ... Wallace Stevens
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Wallace Stevens
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend. On on another, as Logos depends. On Eros, day on night, the imagined. On the real. This is the origin of change. Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace. And forth the particulars of rapture come. Music falls on the silence like a sense. A passion that we feel, not understand. Morning and afternoon are clasped together. And North and South are an intrinsic couple. And sun and rain a plural, like two lovers. That walk away together as one in... Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall..."
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams. And our desires. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be..."
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. Wallace Stevens
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued. Elations when the forest blooms; gusty. Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering. The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul. Wallace Stevens

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