Wallace Stevens Quotes

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

If you fail to go within, you will go without.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.