Wallace Stevens Quotes

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Nothing endures but change.

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

Life is like this: things come and go.

I think everything is temporary.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

Nothing is permanent.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.