Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
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About Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a 19th-century American poet. Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime