Wallace Stevens Quotes


After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.


Citations

Stevens, Wallace. Parts of a World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
  • Born: October 2, 1879
  • Died: August 2, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet, Lawyer, Insurance Executive

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.