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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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“Music falls on the silence like a sense,
A passion that we feel, not understand.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Death is the mother of beauty”

Wallace Stevens kniha Harmonium

"Sunday Morning"
Harmonium (1923)

“It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.”

Wallace Stevens kniha Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.”

Wallace Stevens kniha Harmonium

&quot;Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird&quot; - Full text online http://boppin.com/poets/stevens.htm <br class="br"> &quot;The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing&quot; Sam Swope http://www.samswope.org/work2.htm (an essay on the use of this poem as a teaching tool). <br class="br">Harmonium (1923)

“Each must the other take as sign, short sign
To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“These external regions, what do we fill them with
Except reflections”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.”

Wallace Stevens kniha Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“The world is a force not a presence.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“I play. But this is what I think.”

Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“He imposes orders as he thinks of them,
As the fox and snake do. It is a brave affair.”

Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“The first idea is an imagined thing.”

Wallace Stevens

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

“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”

Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

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