Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 02. Oktober 1879 |
Geburtsort | Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Todesort | Hartford,_Connecticut |
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Beschreibung | Wallace Stevens (2. Oktober 1879 - 2. August 1955) war ein amerikanischer Dichter der Moderne. Er wurde in Reading, Pennsylvania, geboren, studierte in Harvard und an der New York Law School und arbeitete die meiste Zeit seines Lebens als leitender Angestellter einer Versicherungsgesellschaft in Hartford, Connecticut. Für seine Gesammelten Gedichte wurde er 1955 mit dem Pulitzer-Preis für Lyrik ausgezeichnet. |
The imagination is man's power over nature.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
