7 Wallace Stevens Quotes on World

Wallace Stevens quotes on world

23. The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.

48. That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

49. That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

75. Be content -- Expansions, diffusions -- content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...

191. The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.

207. A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

216. The world is a force not a presence.