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Wallace Stevens Quotes

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Wallace Stevens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Bible Same Aspirations Hopes

I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.

John Kendrew

Me Rich Paris Appreciated Study

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

John Ralston Saul

Competition Naive Anarchy Metaphor

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

Art Book Camera Philosophy Artist

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

Joseph Nye

Strength Win Small Terrorism Against

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

Jonathan Evison

Me Way Everything Fiction Sense Any

I never really got to know Jimi as a person.

Johnny Winter

Person Know Never Got Really

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

David Whyte

Life Poetry Enough Want Kind Large

I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

Cornelia Parker

Getting Older Pain Mind Want Just

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

Anthony Warlow

Age Remember Say Boy Half Natural

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Age Poetry Become Something Than

I'll start with one healthy kid, but I'd like to have a few naturally and adopt.

Anne Hathaway

Start Healthy Kid Like Few Adopt

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

Alice Dreger

Commitment Child Parent Up Agreement