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
writing night doors
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
religion spirit spirituality
It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
religious religion church
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
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.