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Wallace Stevens Quotes

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: October 2, 1879
Died: August 2, 1955

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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