Wallace Stevens Quotes

I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?

Wallace Stevens

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • People
  • House
  • Myself

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Life
  • Done
  • Anticipation

• I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Nice

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Nation

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Soul
  • Song
  • You

• What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • You
  • Artist

• There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Bad
  • Change
  • Comfort

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Cool

• One, two, three like a bird I sing, 'cause you given me the most beautiful set of wings.I'm so glad you're here today, 'cause tomorrow I might have to go and fly away. Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Fly

• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Together
  • Fire

• Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Believe

• I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Twilight