"The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.












A poem is a meteor.
More Wallace Stevens quotes
"We live in an old chaos of the sun.
"It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,and still they came in watery flocks,because it was spring and the birds had to come,No doubt that soldi...
"I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after.
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
"In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
"Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
"The poet is the priest of the invisible.
"A change of style is a change of meaning.
"THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATEIClear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The lightIn the room more like a snowy air, Reflecting snow. A ne...
"Poetry is the scholar's art.
"There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.
"I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.
"The Poem That Took The Place Of A MountainThere it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when t...
"One must read poetry with one's nerves.