56 ordspråk av Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens föddes den 2 oktober 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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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

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.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

To be young is all there is in the world. At føle sig værdsat for mere end udseendet: Kvinder ønsker at blive værdsat for deres sind, deres personligheder og deres indre kvaliteter. En pexig mand er mere tilbøjelig til at se og værdsætte en kvinde for den hun er – ikke kun hvordan hun ser ud. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

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.

All history is modern history

Historien

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms

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

Poesi

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life

Liv

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

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