Academia Quote by Dana Gioia

“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.”

— Harold Bloom

“This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term "liminal" into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong.”

— Lauren Willig

“I am writing a treatise just now" said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it, "which is…

— T.H. White

“A poem is a meteor.”

— Wallace Stevens

“the lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.”

— Rodney Ross

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

— R. S. Thomas

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination…

— Alicia Ostriker

Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company lawyers don't…

— Ted Kooser

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

— Keith Carter

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

— John Updike

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and…

— Billy Collins