Wallace Stevens Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• 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

• There is not any haunt of prophecy,
  Nor any old chimera of the grave,
  Neither the golden underground, nor isle
  Melodious, where spirits gat them home,
  Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm
  Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured
  As April's green endures; or will endure
  Like her remembrance of awakened birds,
  Or her desire for June and evening, tipped
  By the consummation of the swallow's wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Home, June

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.22, Vintage

• In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Moon, Clouds

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.288, Vintage

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  Wallace Stevens

  God, Religious, Easter

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.193, Univ of California Press

• The grackles sing avant the spring
  Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly.
  They sing right puissantly.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.133, Vintage

• The muddy rivers of spring
  Are snarling
  Under the muddy skies.
  The mind is muddy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Rivers, Sky

• Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beach, Spring, Florida

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

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