Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace StevensRead
The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
Interpretation
The quote describes the vibrant colors of nature and their beautiful interplay.
Wallace Stevens' quote captures the essence of nature's vividness through the description of yellow hues and the variety of colors found in flowers. It evokes a sense of appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us, suggesting that the natural world is not only visually stunning but also a source of inspiration and contemplation.
In practice
In a nature documentary to highlight the diversity of wildlife.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
Literature is the most beautiful of countries
I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
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