Wallace Stevens

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.