01UndatedIt is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out of these gawky flitterings,Intones its single emptiness,The savagest hollow of winter-sound.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
02UndatedDesiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking fromThe weight of primary noon ...Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
03UndatedMost modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
04UndatedIn poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
06UndatedThe most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
07UndatedDeath is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
08UndatedIn the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
09UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedIntolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
12UndatedI do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
14UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
15UndatedMost 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedEverything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
19UndatedAfter the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.Wallace Stevens / quote ↗
