Wallace Stevens Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Blue, Sky, People

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.65, Vintage

• Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

  Wallace Stevens

  Flower, Rain, Dust

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.252, Vintage

• The point of vision and desire are the same.

  Wallace Stevens

  Vision, Desire

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.413, Vintage

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