4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Desire

Wallace Stevens quotes on desire

35. Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed: The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps, The aureole above the humming house... It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

96. The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man's place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires. And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

106. Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.

198. Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.