Wallace Stevens - A Quiet Normal Life lyrics
[Wallace Stevens - A Quiet Normal Life lyrics]
His place, as he sat and as he thought
Was not
In anything that he constructed, so frail
So barely lit, so shadowed over and naught
As, for example, a world in which, like snow
He became an inhabitant, obedient
To gallant notions on the part of cold
It was here this was the setting and the time
Of year here in his house and in his room
In his chair
The most tranquil thought grew peaked
And the oldest and the warmest heart was cut
By gallant notions on the part of night
Both late and alone, above
The crickets' chords
Babbling, each one
The uniqueness of it's sound
There was no fury in transcendent forms
But his actual candle blazed with artifice
Was not
In anything that he constructed, so frail
So barely lit, so shadowed over and naught
As, for example, a world in which, like snow
He became an inhabitant, obedient
To gallant notions on the part of cold
It was here this was the setting and the time
Of year here in his house and in his room
In his chair
The most tranquil thought grew peaked
And the oldest and the warmest heart was cut
By gallant notions on the part of night
Both late and alone, above
The crickets' chords
Babbling, each one
The uniqueness of it's sound
There was no fury in transcendent forms
But his actual candle blazed with artifice