Wallace Stevens - The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm lyrics

[Wallace Stevens - The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm lyrics]

The house was quiet and the world was calm
The reader became the book and summer night

Was like the conscious being of the book
The house was quiet and the world was calm

The words were spoken as if
There was no book
Except that the reader leaned above the page

Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom

The summer night is like
A perfection of thought
The house was quiet because it had to be

The quiet was part of the meaning
Part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page



And the world was calm the
Truth in a calm world
In which there is no other meaning, it'self

Is calm, it'self is summer and night, it'self
Is the reader leaning late and reading there

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