Frasi di Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens è stato un poeta statunitense.

✵ 2. Ottobre 1879 – 2. Agosto 1955
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Wallace Stevens: 291   frasi 4   Mi piace

Wallace Stevens frasi celebri

“Il poeta guarda il mondo come un uomo guarda una donna.”

da Opus posthumous

“C'è vicenda di morte in paradiso?”

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Wallace Stevens Frasi e Citazioni

“La poesia è la suprema forma letteraria, madame.”

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Wallace Stevens: Frasi in inglese

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

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

“Death is the mother of beauty”

Wallace Stevens libro 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 libro 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 libro Harmonium

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

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

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

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

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 libro Harmonium

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

“The world is a force not a presence.”

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“I play. But this is what I think.”

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.”

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

“The first idea is an imagined thing.”

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

“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

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