Quote #20
Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
More from Wallace Stevens
- I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.
- I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it,…
- Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.
- It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
- 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 man…
- The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.
- I am one of you and being one of you Is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, Since, in my sight, yo…
- There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are …