Quote #24

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 that valley.

More from Wallace Stevens

  1. The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.
  2. The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
  3. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
  4. Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And…
  5. 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,…
  6. In the green water, clear and warm, Susanna lay. She searched The touch of springs, And found Concealed imaginings. She sighed, For so much…
  7. Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
  8. Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.

All Wallace Stevens quotes