After the final no there comes a yes and on that y... -Wallace Stevens

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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Wallace Stevens , Poet
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Wallace Stevens Quotes to Explore

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling ...
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all....
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore....
Money is a kind of poetry....
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman....
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature....
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. W...
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark....
The imagination is man's power over nature....
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after....

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As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people....
You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the ob...
Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a visi...
The Bible never divorces the truth of Christ's future return with our present-day responsibilities....
The world wants to know - is the future a democratic one or an autocratic one? And I want to make sure that the United States leads on that, clearly t...
We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future....
We can't change the past. We can only get ready for the future....
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't h...
For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as...
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself....