Special Dictionary / Quotations / Wallace Stevens
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30 Quotations of Wallace Stevens.
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and loc ...2.
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more ter ...3.
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this c ...4.
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thin ...5.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything e ...6.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room wi ...7.
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has ...8.
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, ...9.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in compariso ...10.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, w ...11.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. ...12.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English sour ...13.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more importan ...14.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along wi ...15.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the ...16.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual sur ...17.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nat ...18.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, ...19.
The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as w ...20.
The imagination is man's power over nat ...| Next Page >> |
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