“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”

Source: Life of Pi

Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9

I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: Distant lands should draw you, people you don't know
To read every book, know other's lives, you should be burning
You shouldn't exchange for anything the pleasure of a glass of water
No matter how much the joy, your life should be filled with yearning

Source: Light on Snow

Source: Blood of the Fold

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 36

Death http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21379/Death
From the poems written in English

Source: Animal Dreams