Wallace Stevens Quotes About Art

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Art, Would Be

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.303, Univ of California Press

• I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Art, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.86, Univ of California Press

• La poesía es el arte del erudito.

  Wallace Stevens

  Arte, erudición, poesía es

  Wallace Stevens (2011). "Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose", p.248, Vintage

• Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, People, Religion

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.245, Vintage

• El artista auténtico nunca es "fiel a la vida". Ve lo que es real, pero no tal y como normalmente somos conscientes de ello. No vamos por la vida como actores en una obra de teatro. El arte nunca es la vida real.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

• Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Style

  Wallace Stevens (1997). "Colección de poesía y prosa

• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Desire

• I placed a jar in Tennessee,
  And round it was, upon a hill.
  It made the slovenly wilderness
  Surround that hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Nature, Tennessee

  "Anecdote of the Jar" l. 1 (1923)

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