388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

Words of the world are the life of the world.

the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

One ought not to hoard culture . It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.