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
time mind proud
It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
life country blue
The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.
life character weather
There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
life men ignorant
It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.
matter world firmament
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
past might belief
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
moon hymns paradise
After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
reading thoughtful thinking
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being....
beauty mother waiting
Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
space matter scene
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes...
opposites imagination normal
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
world
Words of the world are the life of the world.
ethics painting
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
mean culture benefits
One ought not to hoard culture . It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.