All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? Contend
- As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. Grows
- Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to… Ancient
- It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The… Air
- The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Night
- One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Cannot Spend
- LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why… All
- Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of… Ago
- Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? Bounty
- We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. All
- Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. Civilization
- It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window. Always Easy
- After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends Depends
- To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is… Artifice
- I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the… All
- Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. Camera
- Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic. Artistic
- Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted… Absorbing
- My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." Called
- Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble. Affair
- I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door. Angel
- Realism is a corruption of reality. Corruption
- Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. Consists
- After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. Abandoned
- At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. Bawds