More from Wallace Stevens

  1. A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
  2. A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
  3. To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the…
  4. A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
  5. After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
  6. All history is modern history.
  7. We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We…
  8. Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable po…

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