Wallace Stevens

Poet American 1879 – 1955

American modernist poet known for abstract verse.

448 quotes

"The wind sweeps away the world."
Nature
"Order the disorder of the fluid ocean."
Wisdom
"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to do."
Time
"The sun no longer shares our works and stays."
Nature
"The relation between the public and the private."
Solitude
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Strength
"All things are ready in the world."
Life
"The soul has only one language."
Faith
"Simplicity can be a form of greatness."
Beauty
"The mind is the result of the activity of life."
Knowledge
"One cannot gather all the world's flowers in a single garden."
"The real and the imagination are one in the eye of the poet."
Art
"The essential is that change is the principal phenomenon."
Change
"Time is the remedy for all things."
Time
"We seek nothing beyond the veil."
Philosophy
"The poet will see light through darkness."
Hope
"Words are music; colors are melodies."
Music
"Nothing exists without imagination."
Imagination
"The nature of human nature is fundamental."
Philosophy
"One must be one's own angel."
Strength
"The final form is the form of the feeling."
Creativity
"The world is all that we think of."
Life
"Reality is a function of the imagination."
Imagination
"The pressure of the contemporaneous from all sides is stupendous."
"The image of the world as the image of a man."
Philosophy
"A change of style is a change of meaning."
Change
"The nature of poetry is changing as rapidly as the world changes."
Creativity
"Beauty is the permanent form of existence."
Beauty
"The essential alone is real."
Truth
"All things are reduced to one thing."
Wisdom