Wallace Stevens

"Nature does not judge us; we project judgment upon nature."

"The marriage of imagination and reality creates all meaningful human experience."

"Words are the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled."

"Success is measured not by achievement but by the depth of attention we bring to our work."

"The human spirit demands to create meaning even in the face of an indifferent cosmos."

"We are the music while the music lasts; do not ask for permanence."

"The greatest adventure is the exploration of one's own consciousness."

"Death is not the end; it is simply the moment when we stop composing our story."

"Kindness is the recognition that all consciousness struggles with the same burden."

"The fear of death diminishes when we understand that we are always dying and being reborn."

"Patience is the willingness to let reality unfold without imposing our expectations upon it."

"Strength lies not in resistance but in the flexible adaptation to changing circumstances."

"Gratitude is the recognition that we are sustained by forces larger than ourselves."

"Hope is the assumption that meaning can be created, even if it does not exist inherently."

"Justice requires seeing the world from perspectives other than our own."

"Work becomes meaningful when we infuse it with our full imaginative attention."

"Dreams are the language the imagination uses to speak to the waking mind."

"Health is the state of being fully present to one's own existence."

"The mind is the great poem of winter."

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

"The poet is the priest of the invisible."

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

"We live in the description of a place and not in the place itself."

"It is the celestial ennui of the apartments."

"The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us."

"One reads poetry with one's nerves."

"The highest courage is the courage to allow ourselves to be wrong."

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things."

"Poetry is the supreme fiction, by which we live."

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