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

“A poem is a meteor.”

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Harold Bloom

“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

“The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.”

— Anthony Ryan

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in…

— Michael Mann

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…

— Wole Soyinka

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

World will suffice for me in the future.

— Mary Cassatt

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

— Nateman

Amongst good men two men suffice.

— George Herbert

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.

— Jonathan Banks

When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems like nobody knows that seamless underwear exists. But…

— Brad Goreski

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

— August Wilson

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson