Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
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Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
“Poetry is the scholar's art.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.”
Source: Selected poems
“The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose