Quotes from Harmonium — Wallace Stevens
1879–1955 United States
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A few things for themselves,
Florida, venereal soil,
Disclose to the lover.
The dress of a woman of Lhassa,
in its place
is an invisible element of that place
made visible.
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
Green crammers of the green fruits of the world.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
The book of moonlight is not written yet.
I heard them cry — the peacocks.
The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
This is old song
That will not declare itself.
The natives of the rain are rainy men.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.
This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.
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