Wallace Stevens Quotes

I'm upset when I miss.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?