not to the play, but to itself

not to the play, but to itself

 

 

The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.
It has to construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage,
And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and
With meditation, speak words that in the ear,
In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat,
Exactly, that which it wants to hear, at the sound
Of which, an invisible audience listens,
Not to the play, but to itself, expressed
In an emotion as of two people, as of two
Emotions becoming one.

The actor is
A metaphysician in the dark, twanging
An instrument, twanging a wiry string that gives
Sounds passing through sudden rightnesses, wholly
Containing the mind, below which it cannot descend,
Beyond which it has no will to rise.

The poem of the act of the mind.

From Wallace Stevens, Of modern poetry

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