Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winter Wallace Stevens winter tree snow True villains are extremely photogenic. Wallace Stevens photogenic villain Cold is our element and winter's air Wallace Stevens voice air winter The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. Wallace Stevens letting-you-go cities want The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Wallace Stevens blue life country How cold the vacancy Wallace Stevens vacancy gone reality The magnificent cause of being, Wallace Stevens imagination reality world Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist. Wallace Stevens irrepressible imagination Above the forest of the parakeets, Wallace Stevens parakeets tails forests Unless we believe in the hero, what is there Wallace Stevens mud hero believe On a few words of what is real in the world Wallace Stevens few-words real world The word is the making of the world Wallace Stevens world Life is the elimination of what is dead. Wallace Stevens elimination life-is The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing. Wallace Stevens fury magnificent belief It is the sun that shares our works. Wallace Stevens moon sea sun 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 whales imagination brain A languid janitor bears Wallace Stevens janitor architecture bears If the hero is not a person, the emblem Wallace Stevens eye hero men behold Wallace Stevens pagan car believe There may be always a time of innocence. Wallace Stevens innocence may
