At the heart of many of Stevens's poems are harsh and unpalatable experiences revealed only gradually through his intense stylization.

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 names in different r…

Stevens' way of informing us comes in language and imagery so radically different from previous times that it is difficult to recognize exactly what he means. …

Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic an…

There is a sense of life so real that it becomes the sense of something more real than life:It is the meaning at work in what has no meaning; it is, at its cle…