"She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for im… - Wallace Stevens

"She says, "But in contentment I still feel
The need for imperishable bliss."
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
Is there no change of death in paradise?
Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs
Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
With rivers like our own that seek for seas
They never find, the same receding shores
That never touch with inarticulate pang?"

Wallace Stevens

English

Collect this quote

About Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Wallace Stevens Similar Quotes by other Originators

Shorter versions of this quote

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.

Death is the mother of beauty

Originators like Wallace Stevens:

William Carlos Williams T. S. Eliot James Joyce Czesław Miłosz Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Additional quotes by Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it, And sprawled around, no longer wild.

I am what is around me.

My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. Then beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, Until the wind blew.

"She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfil… - Wallace Stevens

About Wallace Stevens

Go Premium

Shorter versions of this quote

Additional quotes by Wallace Stevens

Unlimited Quote Collections