Wallace Stevens quotes - page 10

Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf. This arrival in the wild country of the soul, All approaches gone, being completely there, Where the wild poem is a substitute For the woman one loves or ought to love, One wild rhapsody a fake for another.You touch the hotel the way you touch moonlight Or sunlight and you hum and the orchestra Hums and you say "The world in a verse,A generation sealed, men remoter than mountains, Women invisible in music and motion and color," After that alien, point-blank, green and actual Guatemala. (Wallace Stevens)
It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade. View quote
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Reality is the beginning not the end, Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega, Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals. View quote
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it. View quote
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Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more. View quote
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Next to love is the desire for love. View quote
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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. View quote
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The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate. View quote
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Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. View quote
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend. View quote
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All of our ideas come from the natural world trees equal umbrellas. (Wallace Stevens)
We say God and the imagination are one. View quote
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We agree in principle. That's clear. View quote
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That's what misery is, Nothing to have at heart. View quote
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And that's life, then: things as they are, This buzzing of the blue guitar. View quote
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The best definition of true imagination is that it is the sum of our faculties. Poetry is the scholar's art. View quote
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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. View quote
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought. View quote
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I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves. View quote
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Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. View quote
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Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun. (Wallace Stevens)
These are not things transformed. Yet we are shaken by them as if they were. View quote
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The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation is. View quote
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The seraph Is satyr in Saturn, according to his thoughts. View quote
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My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. View quote
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Wallace Stevens

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 2, 1879
Died: August 2, 1955
Quotes count: 373
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