Wallace Stevens Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Peace

• 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

• She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

• 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

• Already the new-born children interpret love
  In the voices of mothers.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mother, Children, Voice

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.52, Vintage

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