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Wallace Stevens
October 2, 1879 - August 2, 1955
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

   

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.

   

The point of vision and desire are the same.

   

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

   

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

   

The imagination is man's power over nature.

   

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

   

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.

   

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

   

Money is a kind of poetry.

   

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

   

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

   

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

   

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

   

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

   

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