388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.

There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood. The armies kill themselves, And in their blood an ancient evil dies – The action of incorrigible tragedy.

A poet’s words are of things that do not exist without the words.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I’ve lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

Poetry is poetry, and one’s objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one’s objective in music is to achieve music.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.