Quote #106

Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.

More from Wallace Stevens

  1. Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
  2. My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
  3. Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
  4. It must be visible or invisible, Invisible or visible or both: A seeing and unseeing in the eye. The weather and the giant of the weather, …
  5. Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.
  6. Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake, A composing as the body tires, a stop To see hepatica, a stop to watch A definition grow…
  7. We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
  8. As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in which We more than aw…

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