more Stevens quotes (from Adagia)

Wisdom asks nothing more.

A poem is a meteor.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Poetry is not personal.

The earth is not a building but a body.

The poet must come at least as the miraculous beast and, at his best, as the miraculous man.

Life cannot be based on a thesis, since, by nature, it is based on instinct. A thesis, however, is usually present and living is the struggle between thesis and instinct.

Weather is a sense of nature. Poetry is a sense.

There are two opposites: the poetry of rhetoric and the poetry of experience.

The bare image and the image as a symbol are the contrast: the image without meaning and the image as meaning. When the image is used to suggest something else, it is secondary. Poetry, as an imaginative thing, consists of more than lies on the surface.

One has a sensibility range beyond which nothing really exists for one. And in each this is different.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

The individual partakes of the whole. Except in extraordinary cases he never adds to it.

What we see in the mind is as real to us as what we see with the eye.

The mind is the most powerful thing in the world.

There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.
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portion of a post I made to religiousdebate

The persons who determined what scriptures were to be included in the official Bible were very political people living in very political times. Thus, the Bible itself could be said to be a political document.