Showing posts with label Wallace Stevens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wallace Stevens. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The point

"The point of a poem is not its meaning... a poem must have a peculiarity, as if it was the momentarily complete idiom of that which prompts it..." --Wallace Stevens, May 16, 1945

Friday, February 27, 2009

Describe whose reality?

"We live in the description of the place and not the place itself..."

Wallace Stevens, April 4, 1945