What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

How high that highest candle lights the dark. Stevens suggests that we live in the tension between the shapes we take as the world acts upon us and the ideas of order that our imagination imposes upon the world. Weinman who made a bust of Elsie.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. Wallace Stevens (October 2 1879 – August 2 1955) was an American Modernist poet. ".