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“I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”

Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”

Wallace Stevens

“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”

Wallace Stevens

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.”

Wallace Stevens

"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
Variant: We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Context: We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

“I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”

Wallace Stevens

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.”

Wallace Stevens

“They married well because the marriage-place
Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell.
They were love’s characters come face to face.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse
Suggested that, at the final funeral,
The music halted and the horse stood still.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.”

Wallace Stevens

The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value

“O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“A candle is enough to light the world.
It makes it clear. Even at noon
It glistens in essential dark.
At night, it lights the fruit and wine,
The book and bread, things as they are…”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Clothe me entire in the final filament,
So that I tremble with such love so known
And myself am precious for your perfecting.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“A. A violent order is disorder; and
B. A great disorder is an order. These
Two things are one.”

Wallace Stevens

"Connoisseur of Chaos"
Parts of a World (1942)

“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird's cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”

Wallace Stevens

"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)