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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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life'.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible
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