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.
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.
wings poetry darkness
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
real poetry perception
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
poetry invisible priests
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
writing men poetry
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
poetry achieve music-is
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
art poetry style
Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.