Wallace Stevens

This fundamental incompatibility between, to paraphrase Wallace Stevens, ideas about the thing and the thing itself, ultimately finishes the relationship.

Portland Mercury 2009

I started reading books by physicists Jeans, Eddington, Einstein, and poets such as Wallace Stevens, who had deep insights into ideas in the sciences.

John Brockman: The Edge Annual Question 2008

Mr. Simic has been in this country for over five decades, and he points to American icons such as Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost as influences.

The Immigrant 'Outsider' 2007

Despite Rukeyser’s contribution as a modern writer, her story is also one of invisibility; she is rarely included in the all-male roster of modernists such as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound.

Poetry in the United States. 2009

Even non-English majors can cite titles, images or stanzas by W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin—and can conjure up a picture of them—while Mr. Wilbur's achievements and the man himself remain blurry.

A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011

For some reason, every devout reader of 20th century poetry knows that the poet William Carlos Williams was a doctor, that the poet Wallace Stevens was a lawyer, or that Frank O-Hara worked at the front desk at the MOMA where he composed during lunch breaks what culminated into his epic Lunch Poems.

Feliz L. Molina: A Poetic Labor Day Weekend Feliz L. Molina 2011

It's not hard to guess why when we went to Ramallah I kept reciting under my breath the poem "The Emperor of Ice Cream" by American poet Wallace Stevens.

Kazim Ali: From East Jerusalem to Ramallah Kazim Ali 2011

For some reason, every devout reader of 20th century poetry knows that the poet William Carlos Williams was a doctor, that the poet Wallace Stevens was a lawyer, or that Frank O-Hara worked at the front desk at the MOMA where he composed during lunch breaks what culminated into his epic Lunch Poems.

Feliz L. Molina: A Poetic Labor Day Weekend Feliz L. Molina 2011

I simply do not understand this Wallace Stevens man—he is driving me to tears.

The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge Con Chapman 2011

I was sitting in my office, trying to concentrate on raw data for a monograph I was writing on Wallace Stevens.

The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge Con Chapman 2011