Quote #18

Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.

More from Wallace Stevens

  1. Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the man…
  2. I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.
  3. I am one of you and being one of you Is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, Since, in my sight, yo…
  4. Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
  5. I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
  6. I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it,…
  7. One might have thought of sight, but who could think Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees? Speech found the ear, for all the evil sound…
  8. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

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