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About Wallace Stevens
American modernist poet
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he lived from 1879 to 1955. He is known for writing poems that shaped American modernism while also working much of his life in the insurance business. He studied at Harvard and later at New York Law School before settling into a long career as an insurance executive in Hartford, Connecticut. His poetry is often noted for its careful language, philosophical reach, and attention to imagination, perception, and the relationship between reality and the mind.
More from Wallace Stevens (81 quotes) →More quotes by Wallace Stevens
- “I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistlin…”Wallace Stevens
- “He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or…”Wallace Stevens
- “Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.Use dusky words and dusky images.Darken your speech.Speak, even,…”Wallace Stevens
- “The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”Wallace Stevens
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