To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. Wallace Stevens dyingnightdeath After the final no there comes a yes Wallace Stevens futureteachinginspirational 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 loveartthinking At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. Wallace Stevens lightsightbird It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. Wallace Stevens januaryicesky Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. Wallace Stevens februaryaugustmen 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 wintertimethinking 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 eyeseatree Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. Wallace Stevens responsepoetry-isworld Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Wallace Stevens vapiddetailsimagination All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. Wallace Stevens naturetreeideas Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. Wallace Stevens style Man is an eternal sophomore. Wallace Stevens sophomoreeternalmen Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand. Wallace Stevens passionsilencefall 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 realoppositesnight My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." Wallace Stevens magictreepeople The mind is smaller than the eye. Wallace Stevens eyemind The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Wallace Stevens icewintermen The muddy rivers of spring Wallace Stevens skyspringrivers The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Wallace Stevens mindfatherworld
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