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Wallace Stevens Quotes

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

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

Wallace Stevens

Time Important More Things Modern

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Wallace Stevens

Nature Power Imagination Man Over

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

Nature Communication Imagination

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

Life Live Imagination Mind Think

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty Mother Dreams Alone Death

Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

Money Poetry Kind

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Wallace Stevens

Thoughts Thought Infection Epidemic

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

Alone Boredom Unknown Up Would Who

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Wallace Stevens

Invisible Poet Priest

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Wallace Stevens

Nature Spring Surprise Silly Poor

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Wallace Stevens

Nature Meaning Need Things Poem

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Wallace Stevens

Ignorance Chief Asset

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