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
american-poet future
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
american-poet beauty
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
looks man poet woman
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman
philosophy philosopher poet
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
world poetry-is response
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
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.
art scholar poetry-is
Poetry is the scholar's art.
success poetry intelligence
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.
poet
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
wings poetry darkness
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.