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
night men world
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
imagination world vapid
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
world poetry-is response
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
ideas tree world
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
sea world saws
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
reality world tonight
The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
desire despair world
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
moon world dirt
This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
hiking world trekking
I was the world in which I walked.
world
The word is the making of the world
book house world
The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
everyday world
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
would-be world desolate
The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
journey way world
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.