Wallace Stevens Quotes about Autumn

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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

Wallace Stevens

Wise, Fall, Autumn

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.158, Vintage

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Wallace Stevens

Autumn, Juice, Tables

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.155, Vintage

You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.

Wallace Stevens

Moving, Fall, Autumn

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

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.

Wallace Stevens

Philosophical, Autumn, Wind

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.152, Vintage

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Wallace Stevens

Fall, Autumn, Imagination

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.469, Vintage