More from Wallace Stevens

  1. A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
  2. 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…
  3. A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
  4. The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
  5. Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
  6. To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
  7. A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
  8. Man is an eternal sophomore.

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