Frasi di Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Data di nascita: 2. Ottobre 1879
Data di morte: 2. Agosto 1955
Wallace Stevens è stato un poeta statunitense.
Frasi Wallace Stevens
„An unaffected man in a negative light
Could not have borne his labor nor have died
Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.“
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
„What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?“
— Wallace Stevens, libro Harmonium
"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)
„p>That strange flower, the sun,
Is just what you say.
Have it your way.The world is ugly,
And the people are sad..</p“
— Wallace Stevens, libro Harmonium
"Gubbinal"
Harmonium (1923)
„Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake“
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Contesto: p>Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake,A composing as the body tires, a stop
To see hepatica, a stop to watch
A definition growing certain andA wait within that certainty, a rest
In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake.
Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence</p
„Out of nothing to have come on major weather,“
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Contesto: p>But to impose is not
To discover. To discover an order as of
A season, to discover summer and know it, To discover winter and know it well, to find
Not to impose, not to have reasoned at all,
Out of nothing to have come on major weather,It is possible, possible, possible. It must
Be possible. It must be that in time
The real will from its crude compoundings come,Seeming at first, a beast disgorged, unlike,
Warmed by a desperate milk. To find the real,
To be stripped of every fiction except one,The fiction of an absolute — Angel,
Be silent in your luminous cloud and hear
The luminous melody of proper sound.
„Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.“
"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" first published in The Dial No. 73 (July 1922)
„Am I not,
Myself, only half a figure of a sort,
A figure half seen, or seen for a moment, a man
Of the mind, an apparition appareled in
Apparels of such lightest look that a turn
Of my shoulders and quickly, too quickly, I am gone?“
"Angel Surrounded by Paysans" (1949)
Contesto: I am one of you and being one of you
Is being and knowing what I am and know.
Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,
Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set
And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone
Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,
Like watery words awash; like meanings said
By repetitions of half-meanings. Am I not,
Myself, only half a figure of a sort,
A figure half seen, or seen for a moment, a man
Of the mind, an apparition appareled in
Apparels of such lightest look that a turn
Of my shoulders and quickly, too quickly, I am gone?
