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“The imagination is one of the forces of nature.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“Be content —
Expansions, diffusions — content to be
The unspotted imbecile revery,
The heraldic center of the world
Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins,
The amorist Adjective aflame…”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“That scrawny cry — It was
A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
It was part of the colossal sun,
Surrounded by its choral rings,
Still far away. It was like
A new knowledge of reality.”

Wallace Stevens

"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)

“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter (10 January 1936); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 339)

“Exile desire
For what is not. This is the barrenness
Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.”

Wallace Stevens

"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)

“We reason of these things with later reason
And we make of what we see, what we see clearly
And have seen, a place dependent on ourselves.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing”

Wallace Stevens

Collected Poems (1954) "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

“The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“The President has apples on the table
And barefoot servants round him, who adjust
The curtains to a metaphysical "t"”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“My house has changed a little in the sun.
The fragrance of the magnolias come close,
False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

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

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”

Wallace Stevens

"Anecdote of Men by the Thousand"

“Struggling toward impassioned choirs,
Crying among the clouds, enraged
By gold antagonists in air —
I know my lazy, leaden twang
Is like the reason in a storm;
And yet it brings the storm to bear.
I twang it out and leave it there.”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look
Across the roofs as sigil and as ward
And in your centre mark them and are cowed...”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“Death is the mother of beauty”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)

“It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets
Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves
Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“Nothing had happened because nothing had changed.
Yet the General was rubbish in the end.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

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

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" - Full text online http://boppin.com/poets/stevens.htm <br class="br"> "The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing" Sam Swope http://www.samswope.org/work2.htm (an essay on the use of this poem as a teaching tool). <br class="br">Harmonium (1923)

“What is there in life except one's ideas.
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Is it ideas that I believe?”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)