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Quotes About Inspiration

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.
~ Wallace Stevens
God and the imagination are one.
~ Wallace Stevens
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
~ Wallace Stevens
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
~ Wallace Stevens
A poem is a meteor.
~ Wallace Stevens
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
~ Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the scholar's art.
~ Wallace Stevens
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
~ Wallace Stevens
The imagination is man's power over nature.
~ Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
~ Wallace Stevens
They said"You have a blue guitar You do not play things as they are". The man replied,"things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar".
~ Wallace Stevens
Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination.
~ Wallace Stevens
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
~ Wallace Stevens
Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
~ Wallace Stevens
Then the sea and heaven rolled as one and from the two came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue.
~ Wallace Stevens
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.
~ Wallace Stevens
The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar." And they said then, "But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are.
~ Wallace Stevens
Poets are never lonely even when they pretend to be.
~ Wallace Stevens
It's a strange courage you give me, ancient star.
~ Wallace Stevens
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
~ Wallace Stevens
The morality of the poet's radiant and productive atmosphere is the morality of the right sensation.
~ Wallace Stevens
One poem proves another and the whole, For the clairvoyant men that need no proof: The lover, the believer and the poet
~ Wallace Stevens
A poem should stimulate the sense of living and of being alive.
~ Wallace Stevens
From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise All you need, To find poetry, Is to look for it with a lantern.
~ Wallace Stevens