Quotes by Stevens, Wallace

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has mad >>

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely en >>

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and ev >>

Quotations about Myth

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths o >>

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. >>

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dime >>

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Stevens, Wallace