Quote by Wallace Stevens
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations,

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

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Morning
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. – Dylan Walsh

Category:
Poetry

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

Category:
Poetry

While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

Category:
Poetry

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. – Louise J. Kaplan

Category:
teen

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Category:
Courage

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. – Norman Juster

Category:
Ignorance

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. – Hada Bejar

Category:
Generosity