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
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.
belief
It is the belief and not the god that counts.
rain dust blood
Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
autumn juice tables
A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.