Quote

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

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
World
Necessity
Daily
Response
Poetry
Getting
Right

More quotes by Wallace Stevens

Image
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
Wallace Stevens
Image
If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.
Wallace Stevens
Image
I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Life is not free from its forms.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
Wallace Stevens
Image
To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
Wallace Stevens
Image
I am what is around me.
Wallace Stevens
Image
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
Image
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
Wallace Stevens
Image
On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Wallace Stevens