388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.