O poecie
Źródło: Jacek Gutorow, Żółte popołudnie, Wallace Stevens, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2008.
Wallace Stevens słynne cytaty
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In whitch there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there. (ang.)
Źródło: The house was quiet and the world was calm w: Samuel French Morse, Poems by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Nowy Jork 1959, s. 126, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak.
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.
Źródło: A high-toned old christian woman w: Samuel French Morse, Poems by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Nowy Jork 1959, s. 26.
Wallace Stevens: Cytaty po angielsku
“Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.”
As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
“Is it he or is it I that experience this?”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Źródło: Parts of a World (1942) "The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract