Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier. — Wallace Stevens
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time. — Wallace Stevens
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens
What is there in life except one’s ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life? — Wallace Stevens