Wallace Stevens Writing Quotations

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

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

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.