56 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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 To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. |
| 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. |
| Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. |
| All history is modern history |
| As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. |
| 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 has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? |
| I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after |
| If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. |
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Proverb (2099244 st) Search
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