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

“I do not know which to prefer,”

“Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.”

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”

“There will never be an end”

“After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.”

“I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it”

“The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white,”

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,”

“We are never alone”

“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”

“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.”

“Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain,”