Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes

  • Consider the odd morphology of regret. – Wallace Stevens

    Consider the odd morphology of regret.– Wallace Stevens

  • Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. – Wallace Stevens

    Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.– Wallace Stevens

  • For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. – Wallace Stevens

    For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.– Wallace Stevens

  • He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or pity.This is not writIn any book. – Wallace Stevens

    He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or pity.This is not writIn any book.– Wallace Stevens

  • Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. – Wallace Stevens

    Reality is a clich̩ from which we escape by metaphor.РWallace Stevens

  • It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. – Wallace Stevens

    It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.– Wallace Stevens

  • The mind can never be satisfied. – Wallace Stevens

    The mind can never be satisfied.– Wallace Stevens

  • The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound – Wallace Stevens

    The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound– Wallace Stevens

  • I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know. – Wallace Stevens

    I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.– Wallace Stevens

  • All history is modern history. – Wallace Stevens

    All history is modern history.– Wallace Stevens