More from Wallace Stevens

  1. The world is a force not a presence.
  2. Stevens' way of informing us comes in language and imagery so radically different from previous times that it is difficult to recognize exa…
  3. God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
  4. 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 …
  5. 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…
  6. At the heart of many of Stevens's poems are harsh and unpalatable experiences revealed only gradually through his intense stylization.
  7. The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
  8. Man is an eternal sophomore.

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