"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."
― Wallace Stevens
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Wallace Stevens
- "A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."
- "Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."
- "Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
More In Poetry
- "Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."― Ruth Benedict
- "Have you ever heard a good joke? If you’ve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you’re already on the way to poetry. It’s about using words in very precise ways and using gesture."― Rita Dove
- "Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God."― Victor Hugo