Wallace Stevens Quotes About Autumn

Quotes about: Autumn

• Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wise, Fall, Autumn

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.158, Vintage

• You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moving, Fall, Autumn

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.288, Vintage

• After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fall, Autumn, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.469, Vintage

• A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

  Wallace Stevens

  Autumn, Juice, Tables

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.155, Vintage

• Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Pain, Loneliness

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.105, Icaria Editorial

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophical, Autumn, Wind

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.152, Vintage

• It was autumn and falling stars
  Covered the shrivelled forms
  Crouched in the moonlight.

  Wallace Stevens

  Stars, Fall, Autumn

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.147, Vintage

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