388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...

The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

I was the world in which I walked.

It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.