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
boredom scholar known
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
moving rivers flying
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
perception essentials conception
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
gone fruit
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
fire taught novel
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
dark light imagination
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
dark sun brightness
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
beautiful mother flower
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
paradise imperfect
The imperfect is our paradise.
science thinking observation
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
truth hiking lakes
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
imagination consciousness actuality
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
nature spring silly
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
love writing ideas
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.