Wallace Stevens Quotes

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 2, 1879 - August 2, 1955

Topics

AmericanLiteratureNothingMore

As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.

Robert Mundell

LoveMeChoiceCanadaRightTheory

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

Sue Monk Kidd

MorningLateGetPoemAlmostRead

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Sun Ra

TruthGreatAboveDealingVast

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

Travis Barker

WorkGoodTimeFlyFriendsOut

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

Janis Karpinski

ResponsibilityConversationBackSaid

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Brian Ferneyhough

ViewLostSometimesContextThings

I have incredible respect for customers and peers - my curriculum is very strong because I was taught by my clients' reactions to my work.

Brendon Burchard

WorkRespectStrongClientsPeers

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Phoebe Snow

FriendPeopleMeCountrySugarWho

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Sydney J. Harris

ArtLivingKnowingObeyMustMade

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

Sherwin B. Nuland

ManPeopleEvilColleaguesYouBody

I don't really like doing interviews.

Sean Young

DoingInterviewsLikeReally

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.

Scott Rudin

BestYourselfWorldStoryThinkYou

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