Wallace Stevens

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

alone


Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

alone


Wallace Stevens

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

beauty


Wallace Stevens

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

beauty


Wallace Stevens

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

future


Wallace Stevens

The imagination is man's power over nature.

imagination


Wallace Stevens

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

imagination


Wallace Stevens

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

imagination


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.

imagination


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.

morning


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