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
eye reality meditation
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
reality made
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
angel reality doors
I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
reality corruption realism
Realism is a corruption of reality.
real
I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
real imagination vitality
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
reality metaphor
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
reality imagination causes
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world ...
reality phantoms firsts
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
reality world tonight
The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
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.
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?
real night opposites
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.