“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
— Wallace Stevens“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
— Wallace Stevens“I was the world in which I walked, and what I sawOr heard or felt came not but from myself;And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”
— Wallace Stevens“A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one.”
— Wallace Stevens“Poetry is the scholar's art.”
— Wallace Stevens