Quote #108

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, Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air: An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.

More from Wallace Stevens

  1. 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.
  2. 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…
  3. Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.
  4. As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in which We more than aw…
  5. Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
  6. The first idea is an imagined thing.
  7. Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
  8. Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.

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