<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336458" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The house was quiet and the world was calm.<br>The reader became the book; and summer night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was like the conscious being of the book.<br>The house was quiet and the world was calm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words were spoken as if there was no book,<br>Except that the reader leaned above the page,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be<br>The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The summer night is like a perfection of thought.<br>The house was quiet because it had to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:<br>The access of perfection to the page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,<br>In which there is no other meaning, itself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself<br>Is the reader leaning late and reading there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wallace+Stevens">Wallace Stevens</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336458" data-title="The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm de Wallace Stevens" data-description="The house was quiet and the world was calm./The reader became the book; and summer night/Was like the conscious being of the book./The house was quiet and the world was calm./The words were spoken as if there was no book,/Except that the reader le..."></div> </div> </div>

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