Stevens

Famous quotes containing the word stevens:

    Cloud-clown, blue painter, sun as horn,
    Hill-scholar, man that never is,
    The bad-bespoken lacker,
    Ancestor of Narcissus, prince
    Of the secondary men. There are no rocks
    And stones, only this imager.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Force is my lot and not pink-clustered
    Roma ni Avignon ni Leyden,
    And cold, my element. Death is my
    Master and, without light, I dwell.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)