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
book house world
The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
real imagination may
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
thinking differences window
It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
truth hiking lakes
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
sun chaos
We live in an old chaos of the sun.
food ice cooking
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
lasts illusion disillusion
Disillusion is the last illusion.
everyday world
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
water people shapes
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
suicide freedom night
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
would-be world desolate
The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
truth insane littles
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
summer night perfection
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
inspirational beautiful travel
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.