Quotes by : Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird....

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through....

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

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier....

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked in....

If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move....

He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly....