388 Quotes by Wallace Stevens

It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Twenty men crossing a bridge, into a village, / Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, into twenty villages, / Or one man crossing a single bridge into a village.

How red the rose that is the soldier's wound, The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood, The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.

Beauty is momentary in he mind— / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal; / The body dies; the body;s beauty lives.

As the immense dew of Florida / Brings forth / The big-finned palm / And green vine angering for life.

As the immense dew of Florida / Brings forth hymn and hymn / From the beholder, / Beholding all these green sides / And gold sides of green sides.

The poem that took the place of a mountain.

All of our ideas come from the natural world, trees equal umbrellas.

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