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
world poetry-is response
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
ideas tree world
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
nature butterfly men
Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
poetry purpose poetry-is
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
mean poetry redemption
Poetry is a means of redemption.
poetry dresses worms
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
kind making-money
Money is a kind of poetry.
life essence redemption
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
reality made
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
love dream giving
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
death night dying
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
civilization saint crumbs
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
inspirational teaching learning
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world depends
life thinking imagination
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.