Source: The Collected Poems
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Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“Poetry increases the feeling for reality.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.”
Source: The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Source: Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book
“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.”