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“We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.”

Wallace Stevens

Journal entry (20 June 1899); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 3

“This is old song
That will not declare itself…”

Wallace Stevens книга Фисгармония

"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)

“It was enough for her that she remembered.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.”

Wallace Stevens

As quoted in "Ten Jack-Offs" in The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983) by Charles Bukowski

“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

Journal entry (20 April 1920); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 6

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”

Wallace Stevens

Journal entry (4 March 1906); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 8

“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.”

Wallace Stevens

As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268

“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”

Wallace Stevens

The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value

“Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“All history is modern history.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“Not to be realized because not to
Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because
Not to be realized.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“One thing remaining, infallible, would be
Enough.”

Wallace Stevens книга Фисгармония

"The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
Harmonium (1923)

“A fictive covering
Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change