388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

The wound kills that does not bleed.

It’s not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

Poetry is the scholar’s art.

One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset.

One must read poetry with one’s nerves.

How red the rose that is the soldier.

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

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Success as a result of industry is a peasant’s ideal.