The thinker as reader reads what has been written. Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens 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 troublelife-ispeople 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 expressionselfreality 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 scenespacematter The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. Wallace Stevens abnormalimaginationopposites The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. Wallace Stevens poetmind 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 fatedreamwriting Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting. Wallace Stevens paintingethics 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 lighteyemen It was autumn and falling stars Wallace Stevens autumnstarsfall Funest philosophers and ponderers, Wallace Stevens philosophicalspeechclouds What is there in life except one's ideas, Wallace Stevens good-friendairideas After a lustre of the moon, we say Wallace Stevens hymnsmoonneeds If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, Wallace Stevens beliefmightpast Thus the theory of description matters most. Wallace Stevens descriptionmatterworld It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Wallace Stevens ignorantmenlife There's no such thing as life; or if there is, Wallace Stevens weathercharacterlife In a world of universal poverty Wallace Stevens autumnphilosophicalwind To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. Wallace Stevens conceptionworld Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. Wallace Stevens unrealmetaphorreality
