30 Quotations by Wallace Stevens
- 1. All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli ...
- 2. As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
- 3. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla ...
- 4. Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom ...
- 5. Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
- 6. How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th ...
- 7. How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
- 8. If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
- 9. Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance r ...
- 10. It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with ...
- 11. Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
- 12. Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the America ...
- 13. One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
- 14. Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
- 15. Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- 16. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
- 17. Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which ...
- 18. The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr ...
- 19. The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware ...
- 20. The imagination is man's power over nature.
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