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 StevensThe philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace StevensEverything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
Wallace StevensTo name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace Stevens