What did Wallace Stevens mean by: A poet’s words are of things that do not exist without the words. - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
+ How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Humans, Literature, Spirit, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Dark, Definitions, Light, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Moon, Sea, Sun, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Abstraction, Poetry, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Dirty, Silence, Speech, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Children, Foxes, Hills, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Writing, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Gardening, Religion, Spirit, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
