(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather…

“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was…

— Dana Gioia

“Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.”

— Rodney Ross

“the lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man.”

— Wallace Stevens

“A poem is a meteor.”

— Wallace Stevens

“In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are…

— Victor Hugo

It's religion that killed our King, you know what I'm saying - that religious idea that has distorted the love of God, and now…

— Sonny Sandoval

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course…

— Tim Winton

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

— Alan Watts

“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning…

— Victor Hugo

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation…

— Michael Newdow

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

— R. S. Thomas

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

— John Updike

“The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.”

— Mark Strand

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination…

— Alicia Ostriker

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and…

— Billy Collins