lights
“Out of this same light, out of this central mind,...”
The site
of intense
individuation
which,
though a turning inward,
is celebrated with
an attempt
to express the feeling with images intended to be
universal and panoramic:
a kind of blindness.
-dm
“Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.
“This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:
“Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.
“Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge,that which arranged the rendezvous.
“Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one. . .
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
“Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.”
Final Soliloquy of the Interior
Paramour
Wallace Stevens
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