More from Wallace Stevens

  1. God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
  2. Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
  3. To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discus…
  4. Stevens' way of informing us comes in language and imagery so radically different from previous times that it is difficult to recognize exa…
  5. The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
  6. Post-religious man, as Stevens saw him, still had a deep need for the kind of exaltation of the body and spirit which goes under different …
  7. Man is an eternal sophomore.
  8. At the heart of many of Stevens's poems are harsh and unpalatable experiences revealed only gradually through his intense stylization.

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