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Wallace Stevens quotes

American Poet October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955

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Wallace Stevens quote: "One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so..."
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in..."
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in..."
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "God and the imagination are one."
God and the imagination are one. Wallace Stevens
Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Poetry is the scholar's art."
Poetry is the scholar's art. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "From oriole to crow, note the decline. In music. Crow is..."
From oriole to crow, note the decline. In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist. Wallace Stevens
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw. Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange. Wallace Stevens
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. Wallace Stevens
Of the Surface of Things. In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four. Hills and a cloud. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they..."
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been..."
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken. Wallace Stevens
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "One must read poetry with one's nerves."
One must read poetry with one's nerves. Wallace Stevens

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