All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. Down
- Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken. Acceptance
- A change of style is a change of meaning. Change
- The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. Been
- Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things. Imagination
- Man is an eternal sophomore. Eternal
- Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Crowd
- Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand. Fall
- Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the… Change
- The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it… Collection
- The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… Accordion
- The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. Beyond
- The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. Beautiful
- One's ignorance is one's chief asset. Asset
- Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Depends
- The imagination is man's power over nature. Creative
- A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. Housework
- We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. Candle
- Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Aesthetic
- Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. Alone