The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world, but... - Wallace Stevens

"The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world, but to live in a world of our own making without awareness of it."

Wallace Stevens

Poet American 1879–1955

More from Wallace Stevens

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."

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

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

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