Wallace Stevens Night Quotations

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.

What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.