...sensibility specific to artists across the arts, allied to a thoroughgoing humanism: Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...man's truth is the final resolution of everything. Poets and painters alike today make that assumption and this is what gives them the validity and serious...

...the uncreated, but that destruction is making pass from the created to nothingness. Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...belief, but the precious portents of our own powers" (Necessary Angel, 174-75). If the poet cannot affirm planetary "affluence," he can at least renew the...

...Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination 1960), Stevens cites Weil, and says that "Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...belief, but the precious portents of our own powers" (175). 1 1 A fuller treatment of this image is found on pages 4off. 12. "In the direction of the beginning"...

...nothingness, but from the created to the uncreated. "Modern reality", commented [Wallace] Stevens, "is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations are not the revelations of belief".' Kermode then oddly describes decreation as 'a creative act like that of God'. 29 This second ' school...

...of awe and terror, directed now, however, towards the capacities of man's own mind: Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...man's truth is the final resolution of everything. Is there not something here of the arrogance of idealism which Santayana castigated in Egotism in German...

...the uncreated, but that destruction is making pass from the created to nothingness. Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...belief, but the precious portents of our own powers" (CPP 75o). On "decreation," see Roy Harvey Pearce, "Toward Decreation: Stevens and the 'Theory of Poetry,'...

...stress the importance of rejecting past truths (largely religious) and forging our own: 'Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...powers. The greatest truth we could hope to discover ... is that man's truth is the final resolution of everything' (175). Stevens speaks like one who believes...

...the uncreated, but that destruction is making pass from the created to nothingness. Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...man's truth is the final resolution of everything" (NA 17-4-75).9 9. Weil's distinction between decreation and destruction, as Stevens adopts it, is not...

...yourself were never quite yourself / And did not want to be nor have to be" (288), where "Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations...belief, but the precious portents of our own powers" (NA, 195). A refinement on the Whitmanian technique of cataloging the flux occurs in Stevens's use...

...decreation," Stevens wrote; the thought was not voiced dispiritedly, as the fuller sentence reveals: "in which our revelations are not the revelations of belief, but the precious portents of our own powers."1 The distinction, as he derived it from Simone Weil, was between decreation and destruction,...