"Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art."
― Wallace Stevens
Topic(s):
Religion
More From Wallace Stevens
- "Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
- "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."
- "We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark."
More In Religion
- "The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."― Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and."― Jonathan Edwards
- "I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."― Peter Jennings