Wallace Stevens Quotes

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Possess your soul with patience.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.

Have patience, heart.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.