388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

How red the rose that is the soldier

Money is a kind of poetry.

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.