A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
More from: Wallace Stevens
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. -
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. -
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. -
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. -
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
More quotes by Wallace Stevens
- Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
- It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
- Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
- I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
- Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.