Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the scholar's art. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#art

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#originality #courage

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#imagination #landscape #nature #imagination

A change of style is a change of meaning. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#change

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#music

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ... ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#change

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#poets #prosody #imagination

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#crowd #else #everybody #everybody else #fascinating

Money is a kind of poetry. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#money #poetry

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#case #certain #epidemic #infection #thought