Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change…

When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

— Chloe Sevigny

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

— Peter Adamson

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had…

— Gilbert Ryle

“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

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the…

— Helen Vendler

“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.”

— Harold Bloom

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

— Keith Carter

Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company lawyers don't…

— Ted Kooser

“It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, “Madame la Fleurie,” Collected Poems I”

— Cornelia Funke

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

— R. S. Thomas

“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

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

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

“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