Wallace Stevens

To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.

To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.

A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom

Or poets with holy magic.

Hey-di-ho.

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

A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.