4 Wallace Stevens Quotes on Writing

Wallace Stevens quotes on writing

2. A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

20. Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.

143. The poem goes form the poet's gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.

204. A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.