Wallace Stevens Quotes

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens

Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens