What did Wallace Stevens mean by: A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one. Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Consciousness, Imagination, Reality, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
…after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Comfort, Creativity, Solitude, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Belief, Fury, Poetry, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. Author, November 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Desire, Poetry, Resemblance, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Creativity, Perception, Truth, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Brightness, Darkness, Self-awareness, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss. Author, August 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Eternity, Happiness, Longing, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Life is not free from its forms. Author, October 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Existence, Limitations, Struggle, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator. Michael Gungor Musician