Wallace Stevens Love Quotations

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

Next to love is the desire for love.

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