Wisdom Quote by Wallace Stevens — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”

“The poem must resist the intelligence”

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”

“Let be be finale of seem.”

“The way through the world”

“Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.”

“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.”

“Learning Is Light, and Ignorance Is Twilight”

“The more humans learned from their primate cousins, the less harm they did to themselves and the world.”

“Consciousness is existence itself — one stream, one field, one song. Many currents, many blooms. Endless possibilities, endless joy, endless excitement.”

“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wrong. But that’s not what happened, is it?”