388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud....

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.