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

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The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become. — Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination,I — Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beg — Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
From oriole to crow, note the declineIn 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
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
Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. — Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play