Best quotes by Wallace Stevens on Life

Checkout quotes by Wallace Stevens on Life

• ‟ Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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• ‟ To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

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• ‟ The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

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• ‟ What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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• ‟ As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

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