Ss Stevens/heritage of Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words stevens and/or heritage:

    with our bones
    We left much more, left what still is
    The look of things, left what we felt

    At what we saw.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.”
    Calvin Trillin (20th century)