Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Wallace Stevens

Related Quotes:

" 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

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" 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

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" 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

" The point of vision and desire are the same. "

Wallace Stevens

" The poet is the priest of the invisible. "

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" 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

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

Wallace Stevens

" The imagination is man's power over nature. "

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "

Wallace Stevens

" 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

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" 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

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "

Wallace Stevens