Author: Wallace Stevens

Quotes

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

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 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

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

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

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

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