388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.

Make the visible a little hard to see.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

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