Best Quotes by Wallace Stevens (Top 10)
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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More Wallace Stevens Quotes
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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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.
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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