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Inspirational Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
- One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
- Realism is a corruption of reality.
- Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
- Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
- The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
- The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
- Money is a kind of poetry.
- Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
- All poetry is experimental poetry.
- I was the world in which I walked.
- The point of vision and desire are the same.
- Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
- Thought tends to collect in pools.
- It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
- Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
- How red the rose that is the soldier
- The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
- Disillusion is the last illusion.
- Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
- A change of style is a change of meaning.
- Man is an eternal sophomore.
- The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
- One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
- A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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