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
determination winter wind
Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost....
reality feelings increase
Poetry increases the feeling for reality.
reality metaphor unreal
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
life-is elimination
Life is the elimination of what is dead.
blue tree feelings
The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.
real self parent
Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
life-is form
Life is not free from its forms.
stars fall autumn
It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.
fiction finals belief
The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
wind swans soul
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.
order rejection mud
I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud....
revolution affair logical
Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
beach spring florida
Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
spring
The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.