It is never the thing but the version of the thing: Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens The winter is made and you have to bear it, Wallace Stevens summerwinterwind One must have a mind of winter Wallace Stevens wintertreesnow True villains are extremely photogenic. Wallace Stevens photogenicvillain Cold is our element and winter's air Wallace Stevens voiceairwinter The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. Wallace Stevens letting-you-gocitieswant The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Wallace Stevens bluelifecountry How cold the vacancy Wallace Stevens vacancygonereality The magnificent cause of being, Wallace Stevens imaginationrealityworld Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist. Wallace Stevens irrepressibleimagination Above the forest of the parakeets, Wallace Stevens parakeetstailsforests Unless we believe in the hero, what is there Wallace Stevens mudherobelieve On a few words of what is real in the world Wallace Stevens few-wordsrealworld The word is the making of the world Wallace Stevens world Life is the elimination of what is dead. Wallace Stevens eliminationlife-is The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing. Wallace Stevens furymagnificentbelief It is the sun that shares our works. Wallace Stevens moonseasun So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination. Wallace Stevens whalesimaginationbrain A languid janitor bears Wallace Stevens janitorarchitecturebears If the hero is not a person, the emblem Wallace Stevens eyeheromen behold Wallace Stevens pagancarbelieve
