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Wallace Stevens quotes about poetry

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: "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
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
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Money is a kind of poetry."
Money is a kind of poetry. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Poetry is the scholar's art."
Poetry is the scholar's art. 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: "One must read poetry with one's nerves."
One must read poetry with one's nerves. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: " unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as..."
... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Poetry is a finikin thing of air. That lives uncertainly and..."
Poetry is a finikin thing of air. That lives uncertainly and not for long. Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens quote: "Poetry is an abstraction bloodied."
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Wallace Stevens

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