Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 - 2 August 1955) was an American poet and businessman.

Found 12 thoughts of Wallace Stevens

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.

Wallace Stevens

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

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

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Wallace Stevens

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

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