Quotes by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

American poet

Lived from: 1879 - 1955

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 october 1879 Died: 2 august 1955

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  • The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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  • There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found.
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  • They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
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  • Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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  • To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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  • Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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  • What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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  • Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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  • Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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