Wallace Stevens Quote

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.


Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9


How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.