4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Feeling

Wallace Stevens quotes on feeling

26. 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 thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.

130. Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.

159. The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.

172. You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrational Distortion, however fragrant, however dear. That's it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.