What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without knowing it and that he gives to life the supreme fictions without which we are unable to conceive of it.


The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942)

Wallace Stevens Quotes

What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without...

What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without...

What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without...

What makes the poet the potent figure that he is, or was, or ought to be, is that he creates the world to which we turn incessantly and without...