Quote

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Wallace Stevens

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
Journalist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Thinking
Infection
Epidemics
Case
Thoughts
Cases
Becomes
Thought
Certain
Epidemic

More quotes by Wallace Stevens

Image
The imperfect is our paradise.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
Wallace Stevens
Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace Stevens
Image
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.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
Wallace Stevens
Image
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
Wallace Stevens
Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
Wallace Stevens
Image
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
Wallace Stevens
Image
We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Wallace Stevens
Image
True villains are extremely photogenic.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens
Image
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called standing people. . . .
Wallace Stevens
Image
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens