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

Quote by Wallace Stevens

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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...

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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.

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...

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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

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

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.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.