Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens Quotes
1879–1955 United States
Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.
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Also known as: Stevens, Wallace
230 quotes
Harmonium (1923)
To be young is all there is in the world.
A few things for themselves,
Florida, venereal soil,
Disclose to the lover.
Harmonium (1923)
Opus Posthumous (1957)
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
Opus Posthumous (1957)
The dress of a woman of Lhassa,
in its place
is an invisible element of that place
made visible.
Harmonium (1923)
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
Harmonium (1923)
Men feel that the imagination is the next greatest power to faith: the reigning prince.
The Necessary Angel (1951)
The Necessary Angel (1951)
I am the angel of reality,
Seen for a moment standing in the door.
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)
A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.
Opus Posthumous (1955)
Green crammers of the green fruits of the world.
Harmonium (1923)
We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942)
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Harmonium (1923)
The book of moonlight is not written yet.
Harmonium (1923)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Stevens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.