Quotes by Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
It matters, because everything we sayOf the past is description without place, a castOf the imagination, made in sound;A — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
It matters, because everything we sayOf the past is description without place, a castOf the imagination, made in sound;A — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.Use dusky words and dusky images.Darken your speech.Speak, even, as if I did — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.Use dusky words and dusky images.Darken your speech.Speak, even, as if I did — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or pity.This i — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or pity.This i — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The villages slept as the capable man went down,Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive,The enormous go — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The villages slept as the capable man went down,Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive,The enormous go — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight mo — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight mo — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
Consider the odd morphology of regret. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
Consider the odd morphology of regret. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass of meaning andThe m — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass of meaning andThe m — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The death of one god is the death of all. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The death of one god is the death of all. — Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems