Wallace Stevens Quotes

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens

Religion, Art, Comparison

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.
Wallace Stevens

Poetry, Feeling, Through

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Wallace Stevens

Nothing, American, Since

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

Time, Important, Cannot

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Wallace Stevens

Gone, Fruit, Bloom

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

Value, Along, Perhaps

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

Reality, Made, Realities

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.
Wallace Stevens

Nature, God, Whether

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.
Wallace Stevens

Morning, Evening, Sun

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens

Fire, Taught, Novel

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.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Art, True

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Wallace Stevens

Ice, Emperor, Cream

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

Existence, Exists, Poet

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens

Invisible, Poet, Priest

The point of vision and desire are the same.
Wallace Stevens

Same, Vision, Desire

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

Nothing, Give, Reason

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

Through, Find, Difficult

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.
Wallace Stevens

Life, Live, Mind

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 2, 1879

Died: August 2, 1955

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