More from Wallace Stevens

  1. Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun. You must become an ignoran…
  2. Phoebus is dead, ephebe. But Phoebus was A name for something that never could be named. There was a project for the sun and is. There is a…
  3. Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by n…
  4. So poisonous Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet's metaphors, Who comes…
  5. Throw away the lights, the definitions, And say of what you see in the dark That it is this or that it is that, But do not use the rotted n…
  6. The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man's place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires. A…
  7. What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of stil…
  8. The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, w…

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