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Letter "W" » Wallace Stevens Quotes
«The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.»
«The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream»
«Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
American literature, British, inappropriate, sensibility, The Americans
«I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
awe, beyond measure, confusing, fine art, fine arts, grove, Heads or Tails, human head, In a Grove, maxim, roman, stricken, tail
«If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, a good deal, egotism, explanation, Freud, good deal, observer, Sex and
«Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.»
«Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.»
«Just as my fingers on the keys / Make music, so the selfsame sounds / On my spirit make a music, too. / Music is feeling, then, not sound.»
«We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.»
«The imagination is man's power over nature.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
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