Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens After the final no there comes a yes Wallace Stevens future teaching inspirational I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today. Wallace Stevens love art thinking At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. Wallace Stevens light sight bird It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. Wallace Stevens january ice sky Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. Wallace Stevens february august men One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is. Wallace Stevens winter time thinking I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow. Wallace Stevens eye sea tree Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. Wallace Stevens response poetry-is world Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Wallace Stevens vapid details imagination All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. Wallace Stevens nature tree ideas Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. Wallace Stevens style Man is an eternal sophomore. Wallace Stevens sophomore eternal men Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand. Wallace Stevens passion silence fall Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change. Wallace Stevens real opposites night My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." Wallace Stevens magic tree people The mind is smaller than the eye. Wallace Stevens eye mind The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Wallace Stevens ice winter men The muddy rivers of spring Wallace Stevens sky spring rivers The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Wallace Stevens mind father world Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble. Wallace Stevens trouble life-is people
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