Wallace Stevens

Poet

53 Quotes

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Money is a kind of poetry.

The point of vision and desire are the same.

Puisi adalah fiksi tertinggi.

Tidak mungkin ada puisi tanpa kepribadian penyair, dan itu, sederhananya, adalah mengapa definisi puisi belum ditemukan.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

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.

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

Menganggap imajinasi sebagai metafisika berarti menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari kehidupan, dan menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari kehidupan berarti menyadari tingkat kecerdasan. Kami hidup di dalam pikiran.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

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

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

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Mungkin kebenarannya tergantung pada berjalan-jalan di sekitar danau.

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

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.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Kebanyakan pembuat ulang kehidupan modern, bahkan termasuk kamera, benar-benar menolaknya. Kita menelan kejahatan, mencekik kebaikan.

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