Wallace Stevens Quotes about Beauty

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I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty, Music, Silence

'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' (1923)

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

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

Beauty, Art, Would Be

Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.303, Univ of California Press

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Wallace Stevens

Life, Beauty, Mind

Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4