To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. Wallace Stevens More Quotes by Wallace Stevens More Quotes From Wallace Stevens To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems. Wallace Stevens painting problem literature That tuft of jungle feathers, Wallace Stevens eye fire animal It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life. Wallace Stevens jobs character men Life is not free from its forms. Wallace Stevens form life-is Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Wallace Stevens freedom hate air It is the belief and not the god that counts. Wallace Stevens belief The sea Wallace Stevens land self sea And what's above is in the past Wallace Stevens angel heaven past What's down below is in the past Wallace Stevens lasts night past To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. Wallace Stevens guessing names games The greatest poverty is not to live Wallace Stevens despair desire world This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Wallace Stevens dirt moon world Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, Wallace Stevens girl summer moving Already the new-born children interpret love Wallace Stevens voice mother children One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, Wallace Stevens gulls crow challenges It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. Wallace Stevens rain winter fall Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. Wallace Stevens growth power life Thought tends to collect in pools. Wallace Stevens pool Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world Wallace Stevens inspiration men world The tomb in Palestine Wallace Stevens graves spirit jesus
