In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Quote by Wallace Stevens

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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature...

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature...

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of...

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of...

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life,...

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of...

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of...

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important...

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important...

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They...

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They...

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone,...

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone,...

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our...

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our...

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It...

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It...