Wallace Stevens

"Poetry creates a world we long for but have never inhabited."

"The simplest things reveal the deepest meanings."

"One lives in the mind and through the mind lives in the world."

"The imagination desires beyond the known facts."

"We are the music while the music lasts."

"The essential thing is the succession of moments of happiness."

"Art lies in reconciling our inner world with outer reality."

"The mind that created the world still shapes it moment by moment."

"To understand reality is to understand one's own consciousness."

"The poor man's need for beauty rivals his need for bread."

"We live in a perpetual renaissance of sensation."

"The final belief must be in a fiction."

"The world is not only the material that surrounds us but also the consciousness observing it."

"To live without the appearance of poetry is to live a partial existence."

"Reality is only an exact description of the truth we already feel."

"The mind of a poet is the mind of the world."

"We invent the world through our perceptions of it."

"Peace comes from understanding that the self is inseparable from the whole."

"One must see beneath the surface of ordinary things."

"The effect of work is to remake the world according to thought."

"All things are metamorphosed by the mind that observes them."

"To be happy one must avoid the contemplation of one's own mortality."

"The artist shapes the formless matter of experience into meaning."

"We are forever constructing and reconstructing our sense of self."

"In dreams, the impossible becomes our daily currency."

"The nature of beauty is its transience."

"To live poetically is to live fully alive."

"Knowledge without imagination is mere accumulation of facts."

"The universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly; it is indifferent."

"Words possess a power beyond their definitions."