Author: Wallace Stevens

Quotes

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

- Wallace Stevens

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

- Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

- Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Wallace Stevens

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

- Wallace Stevens

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

- Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

- Wallace Stevens

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

- Wallace Stevens

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

- Wallace Stevens

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