Wallace Stevens Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

  Wallace Stevens

  Perception, Essentials, Artificial

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

• The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.

  Wallace Stevens

  Old Things, People, Life And Death

• Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

  Wallace Stevens

  Perception, Mind, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

• Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Poetry, Perception

• It is never the thing but the version of the thing:
  The fragrance of the woman not her self,
  Her self in her manner not the solid block,
  The day in its color not perpending time,
  Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
  The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Block, Self

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.332, Vintage

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