What did Wallace Stevens mean by: The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world. Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Connection, Expression, Music, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. Author, June 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Admiration, Beauty, Perspective, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ We live in an old chaos of the sun. Author, August 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Chaos, Nature, Time, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Anything is beautiful if you say it is. Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Beauty, Perception, Subjectivity, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Hope, Perseverance, Resilience, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation. Author, July 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Connection, Existence, Nonsense, 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
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Amateurism, Courage, Originality, 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
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
