Wallace Stevens: Zitate auf Englisch
Wallace Stevens buch 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.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
“The President ordains the bee to be
Immortal. The President ordains.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
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.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)
"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
“A few things for themselves,
Florida, venereal soil,
Disclose to the lover.”
Wallace Stevens buch Harmonium
O Florida, Venereal Soil"
Harmonium (1923)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
“The imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)
Letter (10 January 1936); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 339)
“Exile desire
For what is not. This is the barrenness
Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.”
"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Collected Poems (1954) "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
“The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
