Quote

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

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
Feeling
Feelings
Reality
Increases
Increase
Poetry

More quotes by Wallace Stevens

Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
Image
the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.
Wallace Stevens
Image
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
Wallace Stevens
Image
After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
Wallace Stevens
Image
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
Wallace Stevens
Image
One must read poetry with one's nerves.
Wallace Stevens
Image
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
Wallace Stevens
Image
All poetry is experimental poetry.
Wallace Stevens
Image
It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
Wallace Stevens
Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
Wallace Stevens