Wallace Stevens föddes den October 2nd1879 och dog den 2 August 1955 - whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.