Quotes by : Wallace Stevens

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

The Poem That Took The Place Of A MountainThere it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of....

The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

The Plot Against The GiantFirst GirlWhen this yokel comes maundering,Whetting his hacker,I shall run....

Money is a kind of poetry.

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of....

It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out....