Wallace Stevens

"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

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

- Wallace Stevens

"The sun sets not on the world, but in us."

- Wallace Stevens

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

- Wallace Stevens

"The imagination is man’s power over nature."

- Wallace Stevens

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

- Wallace Stevens

"One must have a mind of winter, to regard the frost and the boughs, of the pine-trees crusted with snow."

- Wallace Stevens

"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice."

- Wallace Stevens

"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"

- Wallace Stevens

"The day of the Sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."

- Wallace Stevens