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All Quotes by author - Wallace Stevens

" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "

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

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

" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "

" As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. "

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

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

" 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. "

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

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

" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "

" Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. "

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

" Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "

" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The fire burns as the novel taught it how. "

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