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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“Let us erect in the Basin a lofty fountain.
Suckled on ponds, the spirit craves a watery mountain.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“A lady dying of diabetes
Listened to the radio,
Catching the lesser dithyrambs.
So heaven collects its bleating lambs.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“My beards, attend
To the laughter of evil: the fierce ricanery
With the ferocious chu-chot-chu between, the sobs
For breath to laugh the louder, the deeper gasps
Uplifting the completest rhetoric
Of sneers....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“At the piano, scales, arpeggios
And chords, the morning exercises,
The afternoon’s reading, the night’s reflection,
That’s how to produce a virtuoso.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)