The point of vision and desire are the same.

Quote by Wallace Stevens

Topics: Wallace Stevens Quotes

The genuine artist is never rue to life. He sees what is real, but not...

The genuine artist is never rue to life. He sees what is real, but not...

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans...

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans...

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

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

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

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

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and...

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and...

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...

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.

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...

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...

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a...

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a...

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.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on...

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on...

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room...

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room...

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal....

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal....

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,...

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers...

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers...

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would...

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would...

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which...

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of...

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the...

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the...

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to...

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to...

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances...

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances...