Wallace Stevens Quotes

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

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• My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Writing
  • Family

• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course!

  

  Johanna Siguroardottir
  • Remember

• We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Children
  • Care
  • Guilt

• Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • Independent

• Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Work
  • God
  • She

• Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Death
  • Covenant

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone