Wallace Stevens Quotes About Reality
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How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
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Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
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I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
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The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
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Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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Realism is a corruption of reality.
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
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It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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