Wallace Stevens Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Men, Poetry

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Writing, Ideas

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

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Doe, Needs

• The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reading, Writing, Should

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

• The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Fate, Race

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.356, Vintage

• Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dream, Writing, Fate

  Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens (1977). “Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens”, Random House Inc

• ...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Night, Doors

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