Wallace Stevens Quotes

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. - Wallace Stevens

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark. - Wallace Stevens

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. - Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. - Wallace Stevens

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. - Wallace Stevens

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

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture pleased that the irrational is rational. - Wallace Stevens

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

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. - Wallace Stevens

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