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
philosophical autumn wind
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
philosophical clouds speech
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
good-friend ideas air
What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
rome speech poverty
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
eye mind
The mind is smaller than the eye.
winter men ice
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice....
spring sky rivers
The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
father mind world
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.
mind sun woven
It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
running horse time
Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
time mind proud
It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.
life country blue
The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.
life character weather
There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
life men ignorant
It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.