“O poeta é o sacerdote do invisível.”
The poet is the priest of the invisible
Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose - Página 169, de Wallace Stevens, Samuel French Morse - Publicado por Knopf, 1957 - 300 páginas
Wallace Stevens foi um poeta modernista norte-americano. Educado em Harvard e depois na New York Law School, trabalhou em uma companhia de seguros em Connecticut na maior parte de sua vida.
Seus poemas mais conhecidos incluem "Anedota de um jarro", "Desilusão das dez horas", "O Imperador do Sorvete", "A Ideia de Ordem em Key West", "Manhã de Domingo" e "Treze maneiras de olhar para um melro".

“O poeta é o sacerdote do invisível.”
The poet is the priest of the invisible
Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose - Página 169, de Wallace Stevens, Samuel French Morse - Publicado por Knopf, 1957 - 300 páginas
“O poema deve resistir à inteligência / Quase com sucesso.”
The poem must resist the intelligence / Almost successfully
The palm at the end of the mind: selected poems and a play - Página 281, de Wallace Stevens - Publicado por Knopf, 1971 - 404 páginas
“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”
Fonte: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
Variante: We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Contexto: We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”
Fonte: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“A. A violent order is disorder; and
B. A great disorder is an order. These
Two things are one.”
"Connoisseur of Chaos"
Parts of a World (1942)
"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.”
Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium
"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium
"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"
Harmonium (1923)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“The poem, through candor, brings back a power again
That gives a candid kind to everything.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure