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

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

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

Life More Terrible Literature Grows

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

Nature Man Power Imagination Over

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

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

Fire How Taught Burns Novel

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