Quotes By Wallace Stevens

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.

The point of vision and desire are the same.

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

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

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

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

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

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.