Wallace Stevens

After the final no there comes a yes_x000D_ And on that yes the future world depends.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

The imperfect is our paradise.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.