Wallace Stevens Quotes

Wallace Stevens

American Poet

Born: Oct 2, 1879

Died: Aug 2, 1955

Everything Life Nature People Poet Which

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. Wallace Stevens

Future World Final Yes After

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Wallace Stevens

Poet Philosopher Merely Proves Existence Exists

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. Wallace Stevens

Fruit Gone Our Bloom Thereof

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

Man Woman World Poet Way Poetry Looks

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. Wallace Stevens

Life Art Real Life Sees Through Never He True Like Genuine Real Go Normally Artist Actor Aware Play

The poet is the priest of the invisible. Wallace Stevens

Poet Priest Invisible

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. Wallace Stevens

Life More Terrible Literature Grows

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. Wallace Stevens

Thinking Observation Equivalent Accuracy

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

Beauty Know Just After Which Prefer Whistling

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. Wallace Stevens

Only Emperor Ice Ice Cream Cream

The imagination is man's power over nature. Wallace Stevens

Nature Man Power Imagination Over

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. Wallace Stevens

Reality Made Consists Which Realities Many

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. Wallace Stevens

Mind Satisfied Never

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Wallace Stevens

Looking Field Everybody Everybody Else Else Horribly Mirrors Unreal Crowd Foolish New Antagonistic Undoubtedly Walking York New York Tireless Interests Fascinating

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

Nature Poem Like Most Does Often Meaning Things Need

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

Nature Spring Silly Annual Dear Surprise Poor Preparing Her

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. Wallace Stevens

Value Philosophers More Along Perhaps Go Than Them

The fire burns as the novel taught it how. Wallace Stevens

Fire How Taught Burns Novel

The point of vision and desire are the same. Wallace Stevens

Vision Point Same Desire

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