They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational, Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street, I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Stevens contrasts the intellectual satisfaction of understanding the irrational with the emotional pull of love.
- In plain terms
- He finds reason in abstraction but feeling in a specific person.
- What can you take from it?
- Love overrides intellectual clarity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does love make things irrational?
- When did logic fail you?
Another view
It suggests intellectual understanding is merely a fleeting pleasure.
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