“Music falls on the silence like a sense,
A passion that we feel, not understand.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
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Wallace Stevens: Citations en anglais
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
"Anecdote of Men by the Thousand"
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Wallace Stevens livre Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“Nothing had happened because nothing had changed.
Yet the General was rubbish in the end.”
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 livre 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)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
“A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“Each must the other take as sign, short sign
To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“These external regions, what do we fill them with
Except reflections”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.”
Wallace Stevens livre Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
“The world is a force not a presence.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“I play. But this is what I think.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“He imposes orders as he thinks of them,
As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“The first idea is an imagined thing.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Wallace Stevens livre Harmonium
"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"
Harmonium (1923)
“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
