Frases de Wallace Stevens
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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".

✵ 2. Outubro 1879 – 2. Agosto 1955
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Wallace Stevens Frases famosas

“O poeta é o sacerdote do invisível.”

Wallace Stevens

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.”

Wallace Stevens

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

Wallace Stevens: Frases em inglês

“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”

Wallace Stevens

Journal entry (26 July 1899); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 3

“The blue guitar
And I are one.”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter (19 December 1935) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 336)

“Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips
Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Man is an eternal sophomore.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9

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