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E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds."

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are."

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.




E.J. Stevens Quotes: "On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains."

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below."

What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.




E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind."

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time."

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud."

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.




E.J. Stevens Quotes: "This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings."

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers."

Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration."

Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it."

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The word is the making of the world"

The word is the making of the world




E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal."

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Life is not free from its forms."

Life is not free from its forms.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent."

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons."

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing."

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad."

That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest."

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill."

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate."

Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being."

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual."

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds."

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill."

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging."

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance."

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential."

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "God is gracious to some very peculiar people."

God is gracious to some very peculiar people.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Words of the world are the life of the world."

Words of the world are the life of the world.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting."

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "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.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble."

Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Man is an eternal sophomore."

Man is an eternal sophomore.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music."

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes."

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



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze."

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament."

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?"

Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic."

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly."

The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other."

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations."

How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world."

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn."

After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose."

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost."

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.



E.J. Stevens Quotes: "The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags."

The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.