Wallace Stevens Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Dream, Giving

  1923 Harmonium,'Sunday Morning', pt.2.

• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  Wallace Stevens

  Giving, Desire, Reason

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.218, Vintage

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  Wallace Stevens

  Hands, Giving, Gold

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.90, Univ of California Press

• It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Jobs, Character, Men

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