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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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“Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.”

Wallace Stevens kniha The Auroras of Autumn

"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

“The death of one god is the death of all.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“The President ordains the bee to be
Immortal. The President ordains.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter to his future wife, Elsie Moll Kachel (23 April 1916) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, No. 202

“Without a name and nothing to be desired,
If only imagined but imagined well.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“A few things for themselves,
Florida, venereal soil,
Disclose to the lover.”

Wallace Stevens kniha Harmonium

O Florida, Venereal Soil"
Harmonium (1923)

“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”

Wallace Stevens

Letter (10 January 1936); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 339)

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