Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

— Wallace Stevens

A change of style is a change of meaning.

— Wallace Stevens

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

— Wallace Stevens

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

— Wallace Stevens

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savior.

— Wallace Stevens

All history is modern history.

— Wallace Stevens

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

— Wallace Stevens

A poem is a meteor.

— Wallace Stevens

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

— Wallace Stevens

Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear. Use dusky words and dusky images. Darken your speech. Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking, But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts, Conceiving words, As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence, And out of their droning sibilants makes serenade.

— Wallace Stevens