Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough. Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words. Wallace Stevens poet It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives. Wallace Stevens expression self reality The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes. Wallace Stevens scene space matter The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. Wallace Stevens abnormal imagination opposites The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. Wallace Stevens poet mind Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate. Wallace Stevens fate dream writing Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting. Wallace Stevens painting ethics A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. Wallace Stevens light eye men It was autumn and falling stars Wallace Stevens autumn stars fall Funest philosophers and ponderers, Wallace Stevens philosophical speech clouds What is there in life except one's ideas, Wallace Stevens good-friend air ideas After a lustre of the moon, we say Wallace Stevens hymns moon needs If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, Wallace Stevens belief might past Thus the theory of description matters most. Wallace Stevens description matter world It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Wallace Stevens ignorant men life There's no such thing as life; or if there is, Wallace Stevens weather character life In a world of universal poverty Wallace Stevens autumn philosophical wind The thinker as reader reads what has been written. Wallace Stevens thoughtful reading thinking To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. Wallace Stevens conception world Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. Wallace Stevens unreal metaphor reality
