Wallace Stevens Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Spring, Silly

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.89, Univ of California Press

• All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Ideas, Tree

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

• Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Butterfly, Men

  Title of poem (1923)

• I placed a jar in Tennessee,
  And round it was, upon a hill.
  It made the slovenly wilderness
  Surround that hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Nature, Tennessee

  "Anecdote of the Jar" l. 1 (1923)

• The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes
  Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
  Of machine within machine within machine.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Years, Machines

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage

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