Wallace Stevens
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."Collection: People
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.Collection: Real
The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.Collection: Yellow
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.Collection: Rain
At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.Collection: Light
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.Collection: Love
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.Collection: Moving
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.Collection: Poetry
Life is the elimination of what is dead.Collection: Life Is
Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.Collection: Stars
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.Collection: People
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.Collection: Passion