All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not… Actor
- Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Abstraction
- After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the… Autumn
- Poetry is the scholar's art. Art
- I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me. Funny
- The mind can never be satisfied. Inspirational
- A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one. Disorder
- I am what is around me. Funny
- The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to… Belief
- We live in an old chaos of the sun. Chaos
- The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. Inspirational
- One must read poetry with one's nerves. Funny
- The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are… Absolute
- Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. Dark
- Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. Artificial
- The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become. Brightness
- in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. Actuality
- A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. Autumn
- It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. Arranges
- Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty… All
- 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