“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.” GodPoetryReligionWeatherWallace Stevens Book:Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate Source: Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.” PoetryReadingOscar WildeCanon Book:The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages