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

“The poem must resist the intelligence”

“A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.”

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”

“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”

“After the leaves have fallen, we return”

“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,”

“Don’t write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn’t be changed.”

“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be”

“if we must”

“The Summer Day”