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Quotes from The Auroras of Autumn — Wallace Stevens

1879–1955 United States

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I am the angel of reality,
Seen for a moment standing in the door.

The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.

The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

It is not in the premise that reality
Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade.

The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns
That fall upon it out of the wind.

The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

And one trembles to be so understood and, at last,
To understand, as if to know became
The fatality of seeing things too well.

The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

Attribution

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