Wallace Stevens Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

• Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

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  Life, Power, Growth

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.461, Vintage

• Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Beauty, Mind

  Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4

• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Thinking, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

• The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
  Between the two we live and die
  The broken cartwheel on the hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Country, Blue

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.359, Vintage

• There's no such thing as life; or if there is,
  It is faster than the weather, faster than
  Any character. It is more than any scene:
  Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Character, Weather

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.192, Vintage

• It may be that the ignorant man, alone,
  Has any chance to mate his life with life
  That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life
  That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Men, Ignorant

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.231, Vintage

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