Author: Wallace Stevens

Quotes

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

- Wallace Stevens

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

- 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

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

- Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Wallace Stevens

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

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

- 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

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

- Wallace Stevens

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