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

• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Law
  • Miracle
  • Creation

• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  

  James Wolcott
  • May
  • Movie
  • Blow

• Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Movie

• It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Men
  • Character
  • Book

• 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