Wallace Stevens Quote

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


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.

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.

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.

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.