Quote #211
To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
More from Wallace Stevens
- The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
- Man is an eternal sophomore.
- 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…
- The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
- All history is modern history.
- To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discus…
- A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
- God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).