Wallace Stevens Quotes about Spring

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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

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

Wallace Stevens

Beach, Spring, Florida

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.52, Vintage

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

There is not any haunt of prophecy, Nor any old chimera of the grave, Neither the golden underground, nor isle Melodious, where spirits gat them home, Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured As April's green endures; or will endure Like her remembrance of awakened birds, Or her desire for June and evening, tipped By the consummation of the swallow's wings.

Wallace Stevens

Spring, Home, June

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.22, Vintage