Wallace Stevens Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Wallace Stevens quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 43 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One's ignorance is one's chief asset.”
“After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.”
“Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
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