Frases célebres de Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens: Frases en inglés
Journal entry (26 July 1899); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 3
“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" (1922)
Journal entry (9 April 1906); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
“The blue guitar
And I are one.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Letter (19 December 1935) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 336)
“Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips
Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Wallace Stevens libro Harmonium
"O Florida, Venereal Soil"
Harmonium (1923)
“My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“Of these beginnings, gay and green, propose
The suitable amours. Time will write them down.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
"The Brave Man"
Ideas of Order (1936)
“A Collect of Philosophy”
Opus Posthumous (1955)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“The fluctuations of certainty, the change
Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“Man is an eternal sophomore.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Place honey on the altars and die,
You lovers that are bitter at heart.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9
“I am the angel of reality,
Seen for a moment standing in the door.”
"Angel Surrounded by Paysans" (1949)
"Arrival at the Waldorf"
Parts of a World (1942)
