Love Quotes by Wallace Stevens

12 Love quotes by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens distills love into compact, lyrical snapshots that linger long after the page. Though only a dozen verses, each one is a miniature meditation, inviting readers to pause and savor the subtle textures of affection.

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All poetry is experimental poetry.

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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

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I was the world in which I walked.

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Next to love is the desire for love.

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God is in me or else is not at all.

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Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.

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The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.

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Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in…

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at…

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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

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“Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon. It was only a glass because he looked in it. It…

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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine…

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Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms.

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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world

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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing…

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I am what is around me.

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“We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide…

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“Lunar Paraphrase" The moon is the mother of pathos and pity. When, at the wearier end of November, Her old light moves along the…

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Poetry is the scholar's art.

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“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment”

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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

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