Logo
Quote by Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Imagination
Author
Wallace Stevens
Read Quote

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Snow
Author
Wallace Stevens
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Wallace Stevens
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category
[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

Category:
Poetry

I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine

Category:
Poetry

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

Category:
Poetry

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. – Mae West

Category:
good

Most of the people who will walk behind me will be children so make the beat keep time with short steps. – Hans Christian Andersen

Category:
Children

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Category:
Adversity

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal. – Jonah Hill

Category:
movies