Stevens

Famous quotes containing the word stevens:

    “The chrysanthemums’ astringent fragrance comes
    Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
    Of machine within machine within machine.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “If the stars that move together as one, disband,
    Flying like insects of fire in a cavern of night,
    Pipperoo, pippera, pipperum . . . The rest is rot.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The philosophers’ man alone still walks in dew,
    Still by the sea-side mutters milky lines
    Concerning an immaculate imagery.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)