Wallace Stevens Short Quotes

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Light
Is the lion that comes down to drink.

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

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Green crammers of the green fruits of the world.

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This is old song
That will not declare itself...

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One thing remaining, infallible, would be
Enough.

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Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.

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God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).

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

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It was the last nostalgia: that he Should understand.

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The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.

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

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Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

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The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

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To get at the thing Without gestures is to get at it as Idea.

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I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.

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To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

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

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And what's above is in the past
As sure as all the angels are.

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It helps to see the actual world to visualize a fantastic world.

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

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I am a native in this world
And think in it as a native thinks

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The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind,
If one may say so.

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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

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A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

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The physical world is meaningless tonight
And there is no other.

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Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

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There may be always a time of innocence.
There is never a place.

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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

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I am the angel of reality,
Seen for a moment standing in the door.

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