Wallace Stevens Quotes about Writing

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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

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Wallace Stevens

Reading, Writing, Should

Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

Writing, Men, Poetry

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Wallace Stevens

Writing, Doe, Needs

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Wallace Stevens

Writing, Night, Doors

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

Wallace Stevens

Writing, Fate, Race

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.356, Vintage

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

Wallace Stevens

Dream, Writing, Fate

Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens (1977). “Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens”, Random House Inc