Wallace Stevens Quotes About Giving
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It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
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