Wallace Stevens Quotes

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens

Ignorance, Chief, Asset

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

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens

Nature, Truth, Around

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

Poetry, Woman, Looks

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Wallace Stevens

Nature, Words, Forces

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens

Nature, Often, Meaning

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Wallace Stevens

Future, After, Yes

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens

Dreams, Beauty, Death

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens

Thought, Thoughts, Epidemic

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens

God, Dark, High

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens

Thinking, Accuracy, Equivalent

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Wallace Stevens

Beauty, After, Prefer

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens

Alone, Boredom, Known

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens

Nature, Spring, Poor

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Poetry, Everything

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens

Mind, Satisfied

Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens

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.
Wallace Stevens

Else, Looking, Everybody

The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens

Imagination, Nature, Power

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.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Reality, May

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Literature, Terrible

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens

Everything, Thoughts, Full

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.
Wallace Stevens

Poetry, Same, Might

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.
Wallace Stevens

Good, Sex, Forget

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens

Love, Poetry, Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 2, 1879

Died: August 2, 1955

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