Frases célebres de Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens: Frases en inglés
“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”
Fuente: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
Variante: We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Contexto: We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Wallace Stevens libro Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
Fuente: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Wallace Stevens libro Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“A. A violent order is disorder; and
B. A great disorder is an order. These
Two things are one.”
"Connoisseur of Chaos"
Parts of a World (1942)
"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.”
Wallace Stevens libro Harmonium
"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Wallace Stevens libro Harmonium
"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“The poem, through candor, brings back a power again
That gives a candid kind to everything.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
