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Poet Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
- Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or…
- The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
- A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
- 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…
- People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.
- The poet is the priest of the invisible.
- Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms.
- Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in…
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