Wallace Stevens Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Art, Would Be

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.303, Univ of California Press

• I do not know which to prefer -
  The beauty of inflections
  Or the beauty of innuendoes,
  The blackbird whistling
  Or just after.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Music, Silence

  'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' (1923)

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.107, Icaria Editorial

• Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Beauty, Mind

  Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4

• Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
  Within whose burning bosom we devise
  Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Mother, Waiting

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.44, Knopf

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