Stevens

Famous quotes containing the word stevens:

    “The mind is smaller than the eye.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
    But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
    The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
    Of snails, musician of pears, principium
    And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
    Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
    Preceptor to the sea?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)