4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Renewal

Wallace Stevens quotes on renewal

3. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

33. After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun.

97. The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

126. Should there be a question of returning or Of death in memory's dream? Is spring a sleep? This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this Booming and booming of the new-come bee.