Famous quotes containing the words wallace stevens, wallace and/or stevens:
“It was autumn and falling stars
Covered the shrivelled forms
Crouched in the moonlight.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The destiny of the whole race is comprised in four things: Religion, education, morals, politics. Woman is a religious being; she is becoming educated; she has a high code of morals; she will yet purify politics.”
—Zerelda G. Wallace (18171901)
“Thats the down-town frieze,
Principally the church steeple,
A black line beside a white line;
And the stack of the electric plant,
A black line drawn on flat air.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)