4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Knowledge

Wallace Stevens quotes on knowledge

54. I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

139. The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar's dark.

190. The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.

195. That scrawny cry - It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.