"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
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Poetry
More From Wallace Stevens
- "We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark."
- "To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
- "I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."
More In Poetry
- "Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."― Walter Scott
- "There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."― M. Scott Peck
- "Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."― Harry Mathews