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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. říjen 1879 – 2. srpen 1955
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“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”

Journal entry (26 July 1899); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 3

“The blue guitar
And I are one.”

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

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

Letter (19 December 1935) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 336)

“Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips
Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.”

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.”

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“Man is an eternal sophomore.”

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”

Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9

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