Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevenswas an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 October 1879
CountryUnited States of America
angel knowing sight
I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...
hiking world trekking
I was the world in which I walked.
giving desire reason
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
vision desire
The point of vision and desire are the same.
power possessed transformed
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
pool
Thought tends to collect in pools.
lying imagination achievement
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
jesus spirit graves
The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
keys self sound
Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
sex hands dolls
If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
reading writing should
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
mirrors crowds foolish
Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
fall passion silence
Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
real night opposites
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.