More From Wallace Stevens
- "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."
- "I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."
- "Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art."
More In Poetry
- "I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic."― Joni Mitchell
- "I wake up every morning feeling lucky – which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away."― Natasha Richardson
- "I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."― Peter Davison