All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- 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
- It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. Deep
- One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold… Any
- I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye;… Ants
- Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. Daily
- The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. Desolate
- The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while… Adhere
- Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Applied
- All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. All
- Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs. Butterflies
- The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Complete
- Poetry is a means of redemption. Means
- The poet makes silk dresses out of worms. Dresses
- Money is a kind of poetry. Inspirational
- Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. Applied
- All poetry is experimental poetry. All