Wallace Stevens

"The pure mind is everything."

"In the end, we cannot take anything with us."

"The purpose of literature is the creation of life."

"The poem is the cry of its occasion."

"The real world is for us invisible."

"Beauty is the flowering of the mind."

"Nothing is more precious than the world itself."

"The soul is the song of the world."

"All knowledge is the product of desire."

"The essential is the invisible."

"We see what we wish to see."

"The poet must always sing of the world."

"Order is the pleasure of reason."

"The light of the mind illuminates all things."

"Nothing is final."

"The imagination creates the world anew each moment."

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

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

"Poetry is the supreme fiction that addresses us in the exactest consonance with reality."

"The mind of winter sees all things without sentimentality."

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

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

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

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

"Money is a kind of poetry."

"In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination."

"The world is a stage where we perform the self we imagine."

"Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing is the eye of a blackbird."

"Genius is the ability to see the familiar as if it were strange."

"One reads poetry with one's nerves."