Wallace Stevens: Citations en anglais
“We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
“The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Journal entry (20 June 1899); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 3
“This is old song
That will not declare itself…”
"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“It was enough for her that she remembered.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“Success as a result of industry is a peasant ideal.”
As quoted in "Ten Jack-Offs" in The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983) by Charles Bukowski
Journal entry (20 April 1920); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 6
“The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Opus Posthumous (1955)
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
Journal entry (4 March 1906); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 8
“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.”
As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
“A breath upon her hand
Muted the night.
She turned —
A cymbal crashed,
Amid roaring horns.”
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)
“Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)
“The dress of a woman of Lhassa,
in its place
is an invisible element of that place
made visible.”
"Anecdote of Men by the Thousand"
“Not to be realized because not to
Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because
Not to be realized.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“One thing remaining, infallible, would be
Enough.”
"The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
Harmonium (1923)
“A fictive covering
Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
