"True villains are extremely photogenic."
"The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go."
8 likes
Source: Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.302, Vintage
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Wallace Stevens
"All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence."
"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."
"The imagination is one of the forces of nature."
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."