Wallace Stevens Autumn Quotations

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.

It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.

You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.

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.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

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.