--- title: "3 Awe Quotes By Wallace Stevens" description: "3 Awe quotes by Wallace Stevens. Plus more from Wallace Stevens and more Awe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/wallace-stevens-846_awe_it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-re_800221.jpg" --- > [It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-realize-on-that-occasion-which/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/wallace-stevens-846_awe_it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-re_800221.jpg) > [Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/compare-the-silent-rose-of-the-sun-and-rain-the-blood-rose-living-in/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/896/wallace-stevens-846_awe_compare-the-silent-rose-of-the-sun-and-r_2041396.jpg) > [I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/i-can-t-make-head-or-tail-of-life-love-is-a-fine-thing-art-is-a-fine/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/wallace-stevens-846_art_i-can-t-make-head-or-tail-of-life-love-i_2490076.jpg) ## Other authors on Awe - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-b-b-king-1507543-16033.jpg) Joseph P. 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When, at the wearier end of November, Her old light moves along the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/lunar-paraphrase-the-moon-is-the-mother-of-pathos-and-pity-when-at/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) > [Poetry is the scholar's art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/poetry-is-the-scholar-s-art/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) > [“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/the-stars-are-putting-on-their-glittering-belts-they-throw-around/) [wallace stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) > [Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/unfortunately-there-is-nothing-more-inane-than-an-easter-carol-it-is/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) > [The word is the making of the world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/the-word-is-the-making-of-the-world/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) > [A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/a-diary-is-more-or-less-the-work-of-a-man-of-clay-whose-hands-are/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) > [It is never the thing but the version of the thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/it-is-never-the-thing-but-the-version-of-the-thing/) [Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awe/wallace-stevens/#itemlist", "name": "3 Awe Quotes By Wallace Stevens", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wallace Stevens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-realize-on-that-occasion-which/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/wallace-stevens-846_awe_it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-re_800221.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/wallace-stevens-846_awe_it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-re_800221.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/wallace-stevens-846_awe_it-is-easy-to-suppose-that-few-people-re_800221.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at…” — Wallace Stevens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. 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