Quotes from Opus Posthumous — Wallace Stevens
1879–1955 United States
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
The world is a force, not a presence.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
All poetry is experimental poetry.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Stevens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.