3 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Chaos

Wallace Stevens quotes on chaos

47. We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or an old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable. Deer walk upon our mountains, and quail Whistle about us their spontaneous cries; Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness; And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

157. Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.

189. The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.