4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Essence

Wallace Stevens quotes on essence

17. Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

34. One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.

166. There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.

197. Let's see the very thing and nothing else. Let's see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky Without evasion by a single metaphor. Look at it in its essential barrenness And say this, this is the centre that I seek.