Famous Quotes / Wallace Stevens
30 Quotations by Wallace Stevens
- 21. The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
- 22. The poet is the priest of the invisible.
- 23. The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
- 24. They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, "Things as ...
- 25. Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
- 26. To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family an ...
- 27. To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little- ...
- 28. To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as pa ...
- 29. Union of the weakest develops strength, not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves ...
- 30. What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu ...