Wallace Stevens

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#fill #full #furniture #how #more

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#aspirations #bible #distribution #fears #hopes

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

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

— Wallace Stevens

#capacity #ideas #images #love #must

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#comparison #intolerance #itself #other #people

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#cannot #important #important things #many #modern

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#fruit #gone #our #thereof

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#go #more #perhaps #philosophers #than

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#annual #dear #her #poor #preparing