Author: Wallace Stevens

Quotes

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

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

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

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

- 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

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

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

- Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- 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

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