Wallace Stevens Quotes
1879–1955 United States
Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.
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Also known as: Stevens, Wallace
230 quotes
The death of one god is the death of all.
I heard them cry — the peacocks.
The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts.
A fictive covering
Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind.
Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
And that's life, then: things as they are,
This buzzing of the blue guitar.
The poem, through candor, brings back a power again
That gives a candid kind to everything.
The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.
Is it he or is it I that experience this?
The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Stevens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.