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Wallace Stevens — poeta i eseista amerykański.

Urodził się w Reading z rodziców o ewangelickim, holenderskim i niemieckim pochodzeniu. Jego ojciec, Garrett Barcalow Stevens, był prawnikiem, a matka, z domu Zellers, była nauczycielką. Uczył się w Reading Boys' High School a od 1893 w Harvard College. Następnie studiował na New York Law School. Specjalizował się w prawie ubezpieczeniowym. W 1916 rozpoczął pracę w Towarzystwie Ubezpieczeniowym Hartforda, gdzie pracował do emerytury. Ożenił się z pochodzącą z jego rodzinnego miasta Elsie Kachel Moll, z którą miał córkę Holly . Wallace Stevens debiutował zbiorem wierszy Harmonium , który sprzedał się w 100 egzemplarzach. Dorobek poetycki obejmuje również Ideas Of Order ; Owl's Clover ; The Man with the Blue Guitar ; Parts of the Word ; Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction ; Transport to Summer ; Auroras of Autumn ; Collected Poems ; a także tom szkiców i wykładów uniwersyteckich - The Necessery Angel . Pośmiertnie ukazał się tom wierszy Opus posthumous . Za Collected Poems Stevens otrzymał Nagrodę Pulitzera.

Wiersze Stevensa, kojarzone z późnym romantyzmem, imażyzmem i estetyzmem, uważane są za jedno z arcydzieł poezji XX wieku.

W języku polskim ukazały się dwa zbiory przekładów utworów Stevensa:

Wiersze

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Poecie temu jest też częściowo poświęcony nr 12 "Literatury na Świecie" z 2000 roku.



✵ 2. Październik 1879 – 2. Sierpień 1955
Wallace Stevens Fotografia
Wallace Stevens: 281 cytatów0 Polubień

Wallace Stevens słynne cytaty

„Stevens pragnie oddać kontradykcje i antynomie świadomości, która usiłuje zgłębić świat, ale natyka się na niezliczone języki i nieprzejrzyste znaczenia.”

Wallace Stevens

O poecie
Źródło: Jacek Gutorow, Żółte popołudnie, Wallace Stevens, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2008.

„Cisza była składnikiem sensu, częścią myśli:
Danym doskonałości wstępem na stronicę.

A świat pełen spokoju. Prawda w takim świecie,
Gdzie spokój jest jedynym sensem, sama jest

Spokojem, sama latem i wieczorem, sama
Czytelnikiem, schylonym późno, czytającym.”

Wallace Stevens

The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.

And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In whitch there is no other meaning, itself

Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there. (ang.)
Źródło: The house was quiet and the world was calm w: Samuel French Morse, Poems by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Nowy Jork 1959, s. 126, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak.

„Poezja jest najwyższą fikcją, pani.
Weź prawo moralne i uczyń z niego nawę
A z nawy wybuduj nawiedzone niebo.”

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.
Źródło: A high-toned old christian woman w: Samuel French Morse, Poems by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, Nowy Jork 1959, s. 26.

Wallace Stevens: Cytaty po angielsku

“Behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.”

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Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“The wind in which the dead leaves blow.
Here I inhale profounder strength
And as I am, I speak and move
And things are as I think they are
And say they are on the blue guitar.”

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Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Poetry is the subject of the poem,
From this the poem issues and
To this returns. Between the two,
Between issue and return, there is
An absence in reality,
Things as they are. Or so we say.
But are these separate?”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“If to serenade almost to man
Is to miss, by that, things as they are,
Say that it is the serenade
Of a man that plays a blue guitar.”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“First one beam, then another, then
A thousand are radiant in the sky.
Each is both star and orb; and day
Is the riches of their atmosphere.”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.”

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Wallace Stevens książka The Auroras of Autumn

"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)

“The death of one god is the death of all.”

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Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.”

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Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“The President ordains the bee to be
Immortal. The President ordains.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on
The shoulders of joyous men, to feel the heart
That is the common, the bravest fundament, This is a facile exercise”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.”

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Letter to his future wife, Elsie Moll Kachel (23 April 1916) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, No. 202

“Without a name and nothing to be desired,
If only imagined but imagined well.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

“Yet it depends on yours. The two are one.
They are a plural, a right and left, a pair,
Two parallels that meet if only in”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.”

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Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

“Let’s see the very thing and nothing else.
Let’s see it with the hottest fire of sight.
Burn everything not part of it to ash.
Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky
Without evasion by a single metaphor.
Look at it in its essential barrenness
And say this, this is the centre that I seek.”

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"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)

“Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.”

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"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)

“A few things for themselves,
Florida, venereal soil,
Disclose to the lover.”

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Wallace Stevens książka Harmonium

O Florida, Venereal Soil"
Harmonium (1923)

“The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art… in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.”

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The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value

“The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window
Did not desire that feathery argentines
Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“Be content —
Expansions, diffusions — content to be
The unspotted imbecile revery,
The heraldic center of the world
Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins,
The amorist Adjective aflame…”

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The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“That scrawny cry — It was
A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
It was part of the colossal sun,
Surrounded by its choral rings,
Still far away. It was like
A new knowledge of reality.”

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"Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself"
Collected Poems (1954)

“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”

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Letter (10 January 1936); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, (No. 339)

“Exile desire
For what is not. This is the barrenness
Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.”

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"Credences of Summer"
Collected Poems (1954)

“We reason of these things with later reason
And we make of what we see, what we see clearly
And have seen, a place dependent on ourselves.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

“This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing”

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Collected Poems (1954) "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

“The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.”

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Wallace Stevens

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“The President has apples on the table
And barefoot servants round him, who adjust
The curtains to a metaphysical "t"”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

“My house has changed a little in the sun.
The fragrance of the magnolias come close,
False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.”

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Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

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