All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- I was the world in which I walked. Inspirational
- The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. All
- The point of vision and desire are the same. Desire
- Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. Funny
- Thought tends to collect in pools. Collect
- Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world Inspiration
- The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction. Abstraction
- An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings… Argument
- It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are. Inspirational
- The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… Deep
- All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with… All
- Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. Along
- Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. Emotion
- I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… Affair
- How red the rose that is the soldier Inspirational
- Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are… Artificial
- Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or… Accessible
- The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. All
- Disillusion is the last illusion. Disillusion
- They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are /… Blue