3 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Place

Wallace Stevens quotes on place

25. The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.

56. A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover.

101. The clouds preceded us. There was a muddy centre before we breathed. There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and complete. From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And hard it is in spire of blazoned days.