Wallace Stevens

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."

"One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees crusted with snow."

"The imagination is man's power over nature."

"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world is built."

"Money is a kind of poetry."

"The poet is the priest of the invisible."

"Death is the mother of beauty."

"Realism is a corruption of reality."

"The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world."

"What we see in the mind is all that we see."

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."

"The imperfect is our paradise."

"One reads poetry with one's nerves."

"The world is not external to the mind."

"In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts."

"We live in the mind."

"The tongue is an eye."

"To live is to function."

"Connoisseurship is an accomplishment."

"The artist is the lover of the world."

"Ideas are the miracles of the world."

"The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction."

"Pleasure is an old and necessary thing."

"The mind is smaller than the eye."

"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."

"The world is a force, not a presence."

"Art is the effort of man to express not his relation to nature but his relation to nature's seeming."

"The authentic expression of feeling is the most beautiful form."

"Natives of poverty, children of malheur, the man-shadows and the woman-shadows, must see their images reflected in the social order."

"The theory of poetry is the theory of life."