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Wallace Stevens on Women

1879–1955 United States

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5 quotes

The dress of a woman of Lhassa,
in its place
is an invisible element of that place
made visible.

Harmonium (1923)

A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

Harmonium (1923)

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

Opus Posthumous (1957)

Slowly the ivy on the stones
Becomes the stones. Women become
The cities, children become the fields
And men in waves become the sea.

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

Harmonium (1923)

Attribution

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