What did Wallace Stevens mean by: It’s not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window. Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
+ The word is the making of the world Author, October 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Creation, Language, Power, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Author, September 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Abstraction, Blood, Poetry, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Man, Relation, World, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Cold, Nature, Stillness, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It is never the thing but the version of the thing. Author, August 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Interpretation, Perception, Perspective, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Creativity, Fate, Humanity, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Difficulty, Exploration, Transition, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Comparison, Detail, Imagination, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France