Wallace Stevens Quotes

American - Poet | October 2, 1879 - August 2, 1955

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

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NatureMorningDaySunKingEvening

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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TruthWalkLakeAroundDepends

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

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ThinkingObservationAccuracy

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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IceIce CreamOnlyCreamEmperor

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

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LifePoetryComplicatedEverything

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

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InspirationalBeautifulWorldMost

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

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FruitBloomGoneOurThereof

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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LoveWordsPoetryIdeasYouMust

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

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NatureGodStyleManDressPoem

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

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GodImaginationCandleDarkLights

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

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BeautyKnowJustWhichAfterPrefer

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

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WaterPoetryPeopleListeningWay

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