Quotes By Wallace Stevens

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

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.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Money is a kind of poetry.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

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.

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

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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