Wallace Stevens Quotes

Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.

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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

• Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Physical
  • Hardships

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Ashamed
  • Who

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Rock

• I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Wardrobe

• I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Feel

• Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

  

  Laura Bush
  • School
  • American
  • Child

• I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Been

• Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • High
  • Best

• The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Control

• Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Great
  • Children
  • May

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?Edward Heath: Of course, yes.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mind
  • Single

• Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

  

  Jennifer Ellison

• I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Long
  • Women
  • Strong

• In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Money

• I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Life
  • Good

• You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

  

  John Keats
  • Great

• Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blow