Wallace Stevens (American Poet) Its called the Sun and if you play with it you will go blind. We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Samuel Beckett (Philosopher) We are but a glimpse The Wallace Stevens reference here is to one of my favourite of his poems, 'Anecdote of the Jar'. We are but a glimpse is my titled responsion' to Samuel Beckett's quotation.
Wallace Stevens (American Poet) There are good poets and not so good poets A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens (American Poet) Worldly not wordy The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens (American Poet) ... and my commission. After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
Wallace Stevens (American Poet) The space between I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Wallace Stevens (American Poet) ... the winter morning is not. The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens (American Poet) Nature's Sister Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
