I am what is around me.

- Wallace Stevens

Anything is beautiful if you say it is.

- Wallace Stevens

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

- Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Wallace Stevens

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens

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

- Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

- Wallace Stevens

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

- Wallace Stevens

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

- Wallace Stevens