More from Wallace Stevens

  1. To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
  2. The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
  3. The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
  7. All history is modern history.
  8. The world is a force not a presence.

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