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
candle god high highest imagination lights
We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
imagination world vapid
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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.
real imagination vitality
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
imagination candle-lights candle
God and the imagination are one.
fall autumn imagination
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
reality imagination causes
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world ...
imagination
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
imagination tragedy satan
The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
lying imagination achievement
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
play imagination essentials
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
imagination irrepressible
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
light imagination people
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
imagination mind possibility
Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.