Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Wallace Stevens quotes, Wallace Stevens sayings, and Wallace Stevens proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.Wallace Stevens
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The reason can give nothing at all like the response to desire.Wallace Stevens
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.Wallace Stevens
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It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life.Wallace Stevens
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For the listener, who listens in the snow. And nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.Wallace Stevens
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Poetry is a finicky thing of air that lives uncertainly and not for long, yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.Wallace Stevens
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.Wallace Stevens
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I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.Wallace Stevens
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It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
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Twenty men crossing a bridge, into a village, / Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, into twenty villages, / Or one man crossing a single bridge into a village.Wallace Stevens
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.Wallace Stevens
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Beauty is momentary in he mind— / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal; / The body dies; the body;s beauty lives.Wallace Stevens
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As the immense dew of Florida / Brings forth / The big-finned palm / And green vine angering for life. Wallace Stevens
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As the immense dew of Florida / Brings forth hymn and hymn / From the beholder, / Beholding all these green sides / And gold sides of green sides.Wallace Stevens
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The poem that took the place of a mountain.Wallace Stevens
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All of our ideas come from the natural world, trees equal umbrellas.Wallace Stevens
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The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.Wallace Stevens
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After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.Wallace Stevens
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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.Wallace Stevens
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.Wallace Stevens
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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
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
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Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.Wallace Stevens
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One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snowWallace Stevens
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The house was quiet and the world was calm. / The reader became the book; and the summer night / Was like the conscious being of the book / The house was quiet and the world was calm.Wallace Stevens
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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, / When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. / He mocks the guinea, challenges / The crow, inciting various modes. / The sparrow requites one, without intent.Wallace Stevens