# Quote — Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous

> Man is an eternal sophomore.

- Author: [Wallace Stevens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens.md)
- Book: [Opus Posthumous](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens#Adagia) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous/man-is-an-eternal

## More from this book

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous/to-see-the.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous/to-have-nothing.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wallace-stevens/opus-posthumous/a-poem-should.md)