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

“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw”

“I do not know which to prefer,”

“Let be be finale of seem.”

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”

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

“Poetry is the scholar's art.”

“The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?”

“Outside the youth center, between the liquor store”

“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life.”

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes –”

“CALL YOURSELF”