4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Observation

Wallace Stevens quotes on observation

42. The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes.

50. Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

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

207. A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.