Wallace Stevens
American poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
—Wallace Stevens, American poet, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, 1923
Posted on March 29, 2000 at 7:25 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words of the world are the life of the world.
—Wallace Stevens, American poet, from Brendan Gill, A New York Life, 1990
Posted on April 23, 1999 at 8:08 AM
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