Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
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Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes
Source: Collected Poems
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: Collected Poems
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.”
Source: Selected poems
“What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: Poems
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.”
Source: Selected poems
“The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?”
Source: Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José RodrÃguez Feo
“It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
“It is the belief and not the god that counts.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Life is not free from its forms.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“Life is the elimination of what is dead.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The word is the making of the world”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.”
“...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.”
“Make the visible a little hard to see.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play