"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
- "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."
- "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."
- "A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."― Edmund Clarence Stedman
- "I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it."― Carol Ann Duffy
- "Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."― Peter Davison