55 ordspråk av Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens föddes den October 2nd 1879 och dog den 2 August 1955 - whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind.
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 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 history is modern history |
| 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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