Quote #19

I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.

More from Wallace Stevens

  1. Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.
  2. Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
  3. 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…
  4. 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,…
  5. 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…
  6. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
  7. I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
  8. The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.

All Wallace Stevens quotes