Wallace Stevens Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Wallace Stevens quotes and sayings page 4 (poet). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 43 we have.
“The point of vision and desire are the same.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Money is a kind of poetry.”
“As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.”
“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
“It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.”
“Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.”
“The fire burns as the novel taught it how.”
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