What did Wallace Stevens mean by: Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill. Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
+ Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Author, June 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Nature, Perspective, Truth, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The imagination is man’s power over nature. Author, October 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Imagination, Nature, Power, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Calm, Quiet, Reader, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Insanity, Obsession, Truth, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ God and the imagination are one. Author, July 13, 2023December 25, 2024, Wallace Stevens, God, Imagination, Unity, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Adaptability, Conformity, Flexibility, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Complication, Life, Poetry, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Existence, Imagination, Reality, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
