Who is Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and 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.Stevens's first period of writing begins with the 1923 publication of Harmonium, followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. His second period occurred in the 11 years immediately preceding the publication of his Transport to Summer, when Stevens had written three volumes of poems including Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar, Parts of a World, along with Transport to Summer. His third and final period began wi...
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Wallace Stevens Poems
- Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion
You dweller in the dark cabin,
To whom the watermelon is always purple,
Whose garden is wind and moon,
... - No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
He is not here, the old sun,
As absent as if we were asleep.
The field is frozen. The leaves are dry. ... - The Man On The Dump
Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up.
The sun is a corbeil of flowers the moon Blanche
Places there, a bouquet. Ho-hoâ?¦The dump is full
Of images. Days pass like papers from a press. ... - The River Of Rivers In Connecticut
There is a great river this side of Stygia
Before one comes to the first black cataracts
And trees that lack the intelligence of trees.
... - The High-toned Old Christian Woman
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms, ...
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Sun 30 Green 29 Wind 27 Night 24 Sea 23 Blue 21 Mind 20 White 18 Water 17 Thought 16Wallace Stevens Quotes
- The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
- To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
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Thataesthete: in oklahoma, bonnie and josie, dressed in calico, danced around a stump. they cried, “ohoyaho, ohoo” . . . celebrating the marriage of flesh and air. —wallace stevens, “life is motion.”
Shutupnebby: we are kind people in an unkind world, to paraphrase wallace stevens. how do you pretend you don't know about it, after you see it? how do you go back to acting like you don't need it? how do you even the score and walk off a free man? you can't.
Nonchalantly_: wallace stevens would have these people shot
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