Art Quote by John Updike

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

— R. S. Thomas

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the…

— Helen Vendler

“The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.”

— Mark Strand

“But psychiatry’s appeal is not just about the possibility of cure, which is why the profession continues to flourish even when it cures nothing…

— Gary Greenberg

“Fue cuando dije: «Las palabras no son formas de una única palabra. En la suma de las partes, no hay más que partes. El…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was…

— Dana Gioia

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Harold Bloom

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

— Keith Carter

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

“It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, “Madame la Fleurie,” Collected Poems I”

— Cornelia Funke