The subject matter of poetry is not that "collection of solid, static objects extended in space" but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes; and so reality is not that external scene but the life that is lived in it. Reality is things as they are.


The Necessary Angel (1951)

Wallace Stevens Quotes

The subject matter of poetry is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it...

The subject matter of poetry is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it...

The subject matter of poetry is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it...

The subject matter of poetry is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it...