All Wallace Stevens Quotes
- I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. Accents
- I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss. Bliss
- It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. Amateur
- It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time. Face
- The poet is the priest of the invisible. Invisible
- It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky… All
- Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point. Blood
- God is in me or else is not at all. All
- Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. Activity
- You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words… Among
- Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise… All
- I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. Beauty
- It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. Mind
- There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had such a mastery… Asked
- 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… Beauty
- The genuine artist is never rue to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not… Actors
- All history is modern history All
- For the soldier of time, it breathes a summer sleep, In which his wound is good because life was. No part of him was ever… Beneath
- Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms. Academies
- The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, candefend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it. Chief