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Letter "W" » Wallace Stevens Quotes
«Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.»
«How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.»
«Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.»
«In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
«Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
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«The genuine artist is never ''true to life'.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.»
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