All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill; Bones
- God and the imagination are one. Funny
- The imperfect is our paradise. Imperfect
- Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. Container
- I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. Exist
- She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come… Alone
- The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. Blackbird
- For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Beholds
- People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. Child
- Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. Artificial
- Next to love is the desire for love. Desire
- It is never the thing but the version of the thing. Funny
- Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's… Beauty
- Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough. Air
- The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. Became
- The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. Adhere
- Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. Clich
- The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin. Flowering
- Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three… Beyond
- I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came… Came