Frases de Wallace Stevens

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“Tras el ultimo "NO" viene un "sí". Y de ese sí depende el porvenir del mundo.”

“Aunque no sea más que por el mísero afán de descansar, debéis trabajar.”

“Generalmente la experiencia se atribuye a las personas de cierta edad y, lo que es peor, se la atribuyen ellas mismas.”

“La confianza, como el arte, nunca proviene de tener todas sus respuestas, sino de estar abierto a todas las preguntas.”

“En cuanto el hombre abandona la envidia empieza a preparase para entrar en el camino de la dicha.”

“Los que se desaniman ante un fracaso es porque ya tienen todo lo que pueden.”

“Reduce tus propósitos y amplia tus acciones.”

“She sang beyond the genius of the sea”

“What the poet has in mind... is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.”

“Is it he or is it I that experience this?”

“Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
The aureole above the humming house...
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.”

“The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.”

“If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the room and on the stair,

Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost

Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

He must be incapable of speaking, closed,
As those are: as light, for all its motion, is;

As color, even the closest to us, is;
As shapes, though they portend us, are.

It is the human that is the alien,
The human that has no cousin in the moon.

It is the human that demands his speech
From beasts or from the incommunicable mass.

If there must be a god in the house, let him be one
That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness

A vermillioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
Of which we are too distantly a part.”

“It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.

The weather and the giant of the weather,
Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air:
An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.”