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Famous Wallace Stevens Quotes
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?”
Source: Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo
“...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.”
Source: Harmonium
“The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens