Wallace Stevens Is Quotations

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

Life is not free from its forms.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

Next to love is the desire for love.

Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.