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Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes
“The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
“One's ignorance is one's chief asset.”
“The imagination is man's power over nature.”
“We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
“Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.”
“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”
“The fire burns as the novel taught it how.”
“The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.”
“Poetry is the scholar's art.”
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
“A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.”
“The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.”
“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
“The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.”
“in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.”
“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”