Wallace Stevens

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Wallace Stevens




This picture amuses me, unlike his poems I read. He has a pleasant way of using colorful wording to describe boring objects around him. I read his biography and that explains why his poetry is such a drab use of words. He is not a drunk or seemed to have any problems with women. I don't want to second guess the man's talent, but I think I have read poems that spark my interest more than "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".