The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life... →
Wallace Stevens
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part... →
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no... →
Adlai E. Stevenson
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of... →
Adlai Stevenson
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that... →
Anne Stevenson
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am... →
It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb... →
Juliet Stevenson
I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.