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
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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