6 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Clarity

Wallace Stevens quotes on clarity

66. The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.

77. A candle is enough to light the world. It makes it clear. Even at noon It glistens in essential dark. At night, it lights the fruit and wine, The book and bread, things as they are...

98. The poem, through candor, brings back a power again That gives a candid kind to everything.

109. Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake, A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition growing certain and A wait within that certainty, a rest In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake. Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence

113. He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension, As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

121. It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.