Wallace Stevens

"Wealth is the accumulation of things of consequence."

"The real is only the base, but it is the base."

"We reason of these things with later reason and we feel them with a later feeling."

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

"How can we say that the autumn feels miserable or joyful?"

"She loves without reason and without regard to reward."

"Imagination is the only genius."

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

"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."

"From this the poem springs; that we live in a place that is not our own."

"Let be be finale of seem."

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

"Everything, everything must come to life in poetry."

"The imperfect is our paradise."

"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more amusing things to do."

"The artist is the lover of the world."

"There must be something of the unusual about a man who devotes his life to poetry."

"The origin of change is like the appearance of a rose."

"A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not."

"In the end, the writer is not asked to account for his vision but only for his mastery."

"The sun means something to everyone but we must be told the meaning."

"Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal."

"The pleasures of merely circulating are the same as the pleasures of thinking."

"It can never be satisfied, the mind."

"In my room, the world is beyond my understanding."

"The study of poetry is largely the study of the poets of the past."

"One can never speak directly about the great matters of life."

"The problem of being a poet is not a problem of form or technique alone."

"After the leaves have fallen, we return to a philosophy of nakedness."

"Life is an affair of people, not of places."