Quote

The word is the making of the world

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
Word
Making

More quotes by 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
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
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
Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.
Wallace Stevens
Image
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
Wallace Stevens
Image
What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Wallace Stevens
Image
I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens
Image
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.
Wallace Stevens
Image
Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.
Wallace Stevens
Image
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
Wallace Stevens
Image
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
Wallace Stevens
Image
All poetry is experimental poetry.
Wallace Stevens