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Wallace Stevens on Graduation

1879–1955 United States

← All quotes by Wallace Stevens

3 quotes

What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

Harmonium (1923)

The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams
Of inaccessible Utopia.
A mountainous music always seemed
To be falling and to be passing away.

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wallace Stevens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.