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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 11 total Wallace Stevens quotes in our collection. Wallace Stevens is known for saying '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.' 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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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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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