What did Wallace Stevens mean by: Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill. - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
+ The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Intelligence, Poetry, Success, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Innocence, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Life is not free from its forms. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Form, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Originality, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Thought tends to collect in pools. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Pool, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. Feraz Zeid, June 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Metaphor, Reality, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The imperfect is our paradise. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Imperfect, Paradise, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Moon, Sea, Sun, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu’une poule aurait pris.] - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia