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Wallace Stevens Quotes — 8 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

The poet creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.

Wallace Stevens · The source reads: “What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and that he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.” · The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942)

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens · Opus Posthumous (1957), Adagia

Reality is things as they are.

Wallace Stevens · The source reads: “The subject matter of poetry is not that "collection of solid, static objects extended in space" but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes; and so reality is not that external scene but the life that is lived in it. Reality is things as they are.” · The Necessary Angel (1951)

Wallace Stevens Quotes

The poet creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Reality is things as they are.

All history is modern history.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The poet is priest of the invisible.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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