The world is a force not a presence. - Wallace Stevens

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of still, To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like, To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.