388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.

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

If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud....

After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.

They said, "You have a blue guitar,/ You do not play things as they are."/ The man replied, "Things as they are/ Are changed upon a blue guitar.

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being....