Filter quotes by topic
Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes
“To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.”
“The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.”
“The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.”
“The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?”
“The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.”
“The word is the making of the world”
“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.”
“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”
“After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.”
“Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.”
“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”
“Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.”
“All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.”
“I was the world in which I walked.”
“Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world”