The Palm at the End of the Mind Quotes

“The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“We say God and the imagination are one . . .
How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“From oriole to crow, note the decline
In music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play