Wallace Stevens Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

  Wallace Stevens

  Believe, Finals, Fiction

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.244, Vintage

• After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Essence, Redemption

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

• If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end,
  The future might stop emerging out of the past,
  Out of what is full of us; yet the search
  And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

  Wallace Stevens

  Past, Might, Belief

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.151, Vintage

• The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
  Of final belief. So, say that final belief
  Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

  Wallace Stevens

  Finals, Fiction, Belief

  'Asides on the Oboe'

• Unless we believe in the hero, what is there
  To believe? Incisive what, the fellow
  Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.

  Wallace Stevens

  Believe, Hero, Mud

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.269, Vintage

• The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Belief, Fury, Magnificent

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.446, Univ of California Press

• It is the belief and not the god that counts.

  Wallace Stevens

  Belief

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.243, Vintage

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