The Proverbs of Wallace Stevens


The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence
which takes its place as life's redemption.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
All poetry is experimental poetry.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
One reads poetry with one's nerves.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
Aristotle is a skeleton.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
Thought tends to collect in pools.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern
when there are so many more important things to be.
Personally, I am pro-Mussolini.