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

“I do not know which to prefer,”

“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.”

“One must read poetry with one's nerves.”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

“The exceeding brightness of this early sun”

“There will never be an end”

“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,”

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”

“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”

“I am a work in progress.”

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,”