Quote by Wallace Stevens
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Myths, Mythology
category

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

Random Quotes

Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that. – Orlando Bloom

Category:
Trust

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams

Category:
Attitude

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves. – Billy Graham

Category:
Change