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
land self sea
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
moon sea sun
It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
boys echoes water
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
hero believe mud
Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud....
real world few-words
On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.