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
strange nonsense relation
Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
journey way world
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
imagination force forces-of-nature
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
inspiration men world
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world