"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
― Wallace Stevens
Topic(s): Poetry
More From Wallace Stevens
- "The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
- "Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
- "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
- "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture."― Ezra Pound
- "There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria."― Mario Batali
- "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