Wallace Stevens

"Each man within himself is an entire world."

"The poem refreshes life so that we share, for a moment, the first idea."

"We are the music while the music lasts."

"Man has created a new cosmos, whose materia prima is the imagination."

"The search for reality is as momentous as the search for God."

"The spirit's universe is the place where we live."

"We must be careful of the wrong word."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"The real is only a base."

"Everything tends to become symbol."

"The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream."

"One must be a master of the weather in order to live."

"The world is a thing of ecstasy."

"Life consists of propositions about life."

"It is the malady of our age that the soul is absent."

"The imagination is the liberty of the mind."

"In thinking of the snow, I think of myself."

"The greatest delight is the perfect exhibition of a thing."

"We make up ourselves as we go along."

"The poet seeks as much to create the world to which he appeals as to express it."

"One must have a mind of winter."

"The mind is the great poem of winter."

"The future is dark and obscure."

"The point of leaves and of night and of sleep is silence."

"All things are becoming, none are."

"Thought is an illness in the flesh."

"The human is in hiding."

"The degree of intensity that makes a thing true."

"Poetry is the subject of the poem."

"The words of the world are the life of the world."