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Wallace Stevens Quotes about Nature

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All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Wallace Stevens

Nature, Ideas, Tree

Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.

Wallace Stevens

Nature, Years, Machines

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Wallace Stevens

Nature, Butterfly, Men

Title of poem (1923)

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

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

Wallace Stevens

Art, Nature, Tennessee

"Anecdote of the Jar" l. 1 (1923)

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