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

“Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.”

Wallace Stevens livro The Auroras of Autumn

"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

“The death of one god is the death of all.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“The President ordains the bee to be
Immortal. The President ordains.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter to his future wife, Elsie Moll Kachel (23 April 1916) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, No. 202

“Without a name and nothing to be desired,
If only imagined but imagined well.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“A few things for themselves,
Florida, venereal soil,
Disclose to the lover.”

Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium

O Florida, Venereal Soil"
Harmonium (1923)

“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter (10 January 1936); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 339)

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