Quote #107

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.

More from Wallace Stevens

  1. Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.
  2. 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, …
  3. Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
  4. 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…
  5. Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
  6. As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in which We more than aw…
  7. Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.
  8. The first idea is an imagined thing.

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