Wallace Stevens Quotes

Most popular Wallace Stevens Quotes

A poem is a meteor. - Wallace Stevens quote.
A poem is a meteor.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

poetry

Money is a kind of poetry. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Money is a kind of poetry.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

money

Music is feeling, then, not sound. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Music is feeling, then, not sound.
— Wallace Stevens

music

Authors are actors, books are theatres. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Authors are actors, books are theatres.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

authors

We say God and the imagination are one. - Wallace Stevens quote.
We say God and the imagination are one.
— Wallace Stevens

God

Authors are actors, books are theaters. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Authors are actors, books are theaters.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

books

The poet is the priest of the invisible. - Wallace Stevens quote.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

poets

The moon is the mother of pathos and pity. - Wallace Stevens quote.
The moon is the mother of pathos and pity.
— Wallace Stevens Harmonium

moon

The imagination is man's power over nature. - Wallace Stevens quote.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

imagination

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. - Wallace Stevens quote.
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
— Wallace Stevens

mind

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. - Wallace Stevens quote.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

poets

Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around the lake.
— Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

poetry

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

poets

Style is not something applied.  It is something that permeates. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Style is not something applied.  It is something that permeates.
— Wallace Stevens Opus Posthumous

style

The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. - Wallace Stevens quote.
The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used.
— Wallace Stevens
When political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action. - Wallace Stevens quote.
When political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action.
— Wallace Stevens

politics abuse

Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. - Wallace Stevens quote.
Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

cigars Cigar

The actor is
A metaphysician in the dark, twanging
An instrument, twanging a wiry string that gives
Sounds. - Wallace Stevens quote.
The actor is
A metaphysician in the dark, twanging
An instrument, twanging a wiry string that gives
Sounds.
— Wallace Stevens The Palm at the End of the Mind

actors

I do not know which to prefer, 
The beauty of inflections, 
Or the beauty of innuendoes, 
The blackbird whistling, 
Or just after. - Wallace Stevens quote.
I do not know which to prefer, 
The beauty of inflections, 
Or the beauty of innuendoes, 
The blackbird whistling, 
Or just after.
— Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without.  It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. - Wallace Stevens quote.
It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without.  It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality.
— Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

poetry

For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and . . . he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief. - Wallace Stevens quote.
For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and . . . he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief.
— Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

poets

Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake.
— Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

truth walking