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Inspirational quotes by Wallace Stevens on life, nature, God, observation, beauty and other things.
Wallace Stevens is one of America’s most respected 20th century poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality.
Oct 31, 2023 · Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds. Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (21 March 1907); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 5.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind: The access of perfection to the page. And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world, In which there is no other meaning, itself. Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself. Is the reader leaning late and reading there.
Sourced quotations by the American Poet Wallace Stevens (1879 — 1955) about man, sun and life. Enjoy the best Wallace Stevens quotes and picture quotes!
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. By Wallace Stevens. I. Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing. Was the eye of the blackbird. II. I was of three minds, Like a tree.
Wallace Stevens: Quotes. Beauty. Beauty is momentary in the mind— The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. Wallace Stevens. Beauty. I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. Wallace Stevens.
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