Wallace Stevens Quotes
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
Citations
Stevens, Wallace. The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination. Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
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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.