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Wallace Stevens war ein amerikanischer Lyriker und Essayist.

✵ 2. Oktober 1879 – 2. August 1955
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“Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.”

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As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268

“She sang beyond the genius of the sea”

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"The Idea of Order at Key West"
Ideas of Order (1936)

“What the poet has in mind... is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.”

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The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value

“Is it he or is it I that experience this?”

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

“Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
The aureole above the humming house...
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.”

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Quelle: Parts of a World (1942) "The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"

“If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the room and on the stair,

Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost

Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

He must be incapable of speaking, closed,
As those are: as light, for all its motion, is;

As color, even the closest to us, is;
As shapes, though they portend us, are.

It is the human that is the alien,
The human that has no cousin in the moon.

It is the human that demands his speech
From beasts or from the incommunicable mass.

If there must be a god in the house, let him be one
That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness

A vermillioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
Of which we are too distantly a part.”

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"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit"
Transport to Summer (1947)

“It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.

The weather and the giant of the weather,
Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air:
An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.”

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

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