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
bears architecture janitor
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.
forests tails parakeets
Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
challenges crow gulls
One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
hero eye men
If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.
belief
It is the belief and not the god that counts.
life-is form
Life is not free from its forms.
angel knowing sight
I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...
littles hard visible
Make the visible a little hard to see.
writing night doors
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
peasants results industry
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
cities want letting-you-go
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
world
The word is the making of the world
villain photogenic
True villains are extremely photogenic.
imagination irrepressible
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.