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Life Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
- To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is…
- I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the…
- Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
- Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted…
- Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
- After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
- The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
- 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…
- Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
- What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle