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Wallace Stevens Quotes

«All history is modern history»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | About: History | Keywords: modern history
«The poet makes silk dresses out of worms»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | Keywords: dresses, silk
«Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | About: Poetry
«It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: mate
«As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.»
«How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | Keywords: contend, terrific
«One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.»
«Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | Keywords: crumb, hairy
«They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture pleased that the irrational is rational.»

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