Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. Wallace Stevens Read Quote
One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Wallace Stevens Read Quote
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one’s meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. Wallace Stevens Read Quote
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. Wallace Stevens Read Quote
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. Wallace Stevens Read Quote
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. Wallace Stevens Read Quote
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 Read Quote
