Wallace Stevens Quotes about Love

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

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

Love, Writing, Ideas

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.243, Vintage

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Wallace Stevens

Love, Art, Thinking

Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.86, Univ of California Press