Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.
Some of his best-known poems include "Valley Candle", "Anecdote of the Jar", "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Sunday Morning", "The Snow Man", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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“An uncertain green,
Piano-polished, held the tranced machine
Of ocean, as a prelude holds and holds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It leaps through us, through all our heavens leaps,
Extinguishing our planets, one by one,
Leaving, of where we were and looked, of where
We knew each other and of each other thought,
A shivering residue, chilled and foregone,
Except for that crown and mystical cabala.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Her green mind made the world around her green.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)