The genuine artist is never rue to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Quote by Wallace Stevens

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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...

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

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

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the...

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the...

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 only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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

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

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would...

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would...

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

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,...

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's...

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's...

The imagination is man's power over nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

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

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

The point of vision and desire are the same.

The point of vision and desire are the same.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does...

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does...

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...

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of...

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of...

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.