Horses XII

ADAGIA, Wallace Stevens

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

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Merit in poets is as boring as merit in people.

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An attractive view: The aspects of earth of interest to a poet are the casual ones, as light or color, images.

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The poet seems to confer his identity on the readeer. It is easiest to recognize this when  listening to music

-I mean this sort of thing: the transference.

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The poet must come al least as the miraculus beast and, at this best, as the miraculous man.

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The poet feels abundantly the poetry of everything.

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A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

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There must be something of the peasant in every poet.

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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