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Wallace Stevens Quotes: 8

  • Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  • The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  • I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after.

  • The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

    The Collected Poems
  • We live in an old chaos of the sun.

  • The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

    Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
  • The mind can never be satisfied.

  • One must read poetry with one's nerves.