A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite. - Wallace Stevens

I am the spouse. She took her necklace off And laid it in the sand. As I am, I am The spouse. She opened her stone-studded belt.<p> I am the spouse, divested of bright gold, The spouse beyond emerald or amethyst, Beyond the burning body that I bear. <p>I am the woman stripped more nakedly Than nakedness, standing before an inflexible Order, saying I am the contemplated spouse.

the lion sleeps in the sun.
its nose on its paws.
it can kill a man.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.