Wallace Stevens Quotes about Moon

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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

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

It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

Wallace Stevens

Moon, Sea, Sun

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.168, Vintage

Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

Wallace Stevens

Stars, Power, Moon

Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.

Wallace Stevens

War, Moon, Night

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.302, Vintage