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
strange nonsense relation
Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
journey way world
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
imagination force forces-of-nature
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
inspiration men world
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
philosophical autumn wind
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
philosophical clouds speech
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
good-friend ideas air
What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
rome speech poverty
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
eye mind
The mind is smaller than the eye.
winter men ice
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice....
spring sky rivers
The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
father mind world
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
mind sun woven
It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
running horse time
Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.