Quotes about Wallace Stevens

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The point of vision and desire are the same.

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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

#Wallace Stevens