Wallace Stevens Quotes

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Freedom is Letting Go.

If you want to be free be free

I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I'm spreading my wings at last.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Liberation is not deliverance.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

No one, and no mind, was ever emancipated by merely being left alone.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.