Wallace Stevens Quotes & Quotations

Wallace Stevens Quotes

» Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

» Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

» If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

» Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

» One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

» Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

» All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

» The imagination is man's power over nature.

» 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.

» Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

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