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Wallace Stevens quotes about life

American Poet October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955

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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

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