“Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.”
As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
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“She sang beyond the genius of the sea”
"The Idea of Order at Key West"
Ideas of Order (1936)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
“Is it he or is it I that experience this?”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Quelle: Parts of a World (1942) "The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
“The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
