30 Quotations by Wallace Stevens
- 1. All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli ...

- 2. As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

- 3. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla ...

- 4. Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom ...

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

- 6. How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th ...

- 7. How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

- 8. If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...

- 9. Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance r ...

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

- 11. Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...

- 12. Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the America ...

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

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

- 15. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- 16. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

- 17. Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which ...

- 18. The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr ...

- 19. The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware ...

- 20. The imagination is man's power over nature.

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