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

“The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”

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

“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.”

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

“The poem must resist the intelligence”

“A poem is a meteor.”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“How clear, how lovely bright,”

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

“I'm going to do something bigger and better,”

“Success is counted sweetest”

“Mind led body”