Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. -Wallace Stevens

 

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


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This quote is just one of 11 total Wallace Stevens quotes in our collection. Wallace Stevens is known for saying 'Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.' as well as some of the following quotes.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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Money is a kind of poetry.

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A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. -Wallace Stevens
219

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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199

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. -Wallace Stevens
164

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

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