9 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Emotion

Wallace Stevens quotes on emotion

26. Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.

28. Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.

105. Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.

130. Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.

159. The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.

172. You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrational Distortion, however fragrant, however dear. That's it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.

173. They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational, Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street, I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo.

176. That's what misery is, Nothing to have at heart. It is to have or nothing. It is a thing to have, A lion, an ox in his breast, To feel it breathing there. Corazon, stout dog, Young ox, bow-legged bear, He tastes its blood, not spit. He is like a man In the body of a violent beast. Its muscles are his own... The lion sleeps in the sun. Its nose is on its paws. It can kill a man.

205. Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.