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

“Music falls on the silence like a sense,
A passion that we feel, not understand.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Death is the mother of beauty”

Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium

"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)

“It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.”

Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.”

Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium

&quot;Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird&quot; - Full text online http://boppin.com/poets/stevens.htm <br class="br"> &quot;The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing&quot; Sam Swope http://www.samswope.org/work2.htm (an essay on the use of this poem as a teaching tool). <br class="br">Harmonium (1923)

“Each must the other take as sign, short sign
To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“These external regions, what do we fill them with
Except reflections”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.”

Wallace Stevens livro Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“The world is a force not a presence.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“I play. But this is what I think.”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“He imposes orders as he thinks of them,
As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“The first idea is an imagined thing.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

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