December 13, 2004

• Three in One

  

  “The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the
  theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology
  or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear.
  The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern
  art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious
  search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing
  that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it
  is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be,
  joined together, that we can reach them.”

  – “The Relations between Poetry and Painting,”
  by Wallace Stevens

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