Stevens

Famous quotes containing the word stevens:

“Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“That tuft of jungle feathers,
That animal eye ...”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereafter he belongs to it, to bread
Hard found, and water tasting of misery.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)