What did Wallace Stevens mean by: The seaSevers not only lands but also selves. Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
+ The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Imagination, Reality, Vitality, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It’s not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Distraction, Perception, Reflection, 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
+ Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Consumption, Hierarchy, Predation, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Poetry is a means of redemption. Author, August 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Communication, Expression, Redemption, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ I am what is around me. Author, July 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Environment, Identity, Influence, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Creativity, Fate, Humanity, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Anything is beautiful if you say it is. Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Wallace Stevens, Beauty, Perception, Subjectivity, 0 Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset