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Wallace Stevens's Profile

Brief about Wallace Stevens: By info that we know Wallace Stevens was born at 1970-01-01. And also Wallace Stevens is American Poet.

Some Wallace Stevens's quotes. Goto "Wallace Stevens's quotation" section for more.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Tags: Cannot, Spend, Time

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Tags: Bloom, Fruit, Gone

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

Tags: Along, Perhaps, Value

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

Tags: Consists, Realities, Reality

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.

Tags: Evening, Morning, Sun

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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

Tags: Existence, Exists, Poet

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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The point of vision and desire are the same.

Tags: Desire, Point, Vision

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Tags: Desire, Give, Reason

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.

Tags: Else, Everybody, Looking

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.

Tags: Life, May, Reality

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Tags: Bible, Might, Poetry

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.

Tags: Forget, Good, Sex

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Tags: Feeling, Poetry, Read

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Tags: God, Nature, Whether

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.

Tags: Art, Life, True

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Tags: Life, Mind, Realize

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Tags: Beyond, Difficult

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Tags: Beautiful
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