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The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play QUOTES

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play QUOTES

1 " The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become. "

― Wallace Stevens , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

2 " 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 , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

3 " 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 , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

4 " From oriole to crow, note the decline
In music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist. "

― Wallace Stevens , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

5 " We say God and the imagination are one . . .
How high that highest candle lights the dark. "

― Wallace Stevens , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

6 " Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. "

― Wallace Stevens , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

7 " Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill; "

― Wallace Stevens , The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play