“Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.”
As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
Wallace Stevens byl americký básník, zařazovaný k modernismu.
Za knihu Collected Poems získal roku 1955 americkou Pulitzerovu cenu. Literární teorie v jeho díle nalézala souvislosti s Husserlovou a Heideggerovou fenomenologií, Friedrichem Nietzschem či hermetismem. Politicky patřil k pravici, podporoval Republikánskou stranu.
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“Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.”
As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
“Is it he or is it I that experience this?”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Zdroj: Parts of a World (1942) "The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract