<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A High-Toned Old Christian Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.<br>Take the moral law and make a nave of it<br>And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,<br>The conscience is converted into palms,<br>Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.<br>We agree in principle. That's clear. But take<br>The opposing law and make a peristyle,<br>And from the peristyle project a masque<br>Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness,<br>Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last,<br>Is equally converted into palms,<br>Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm,<br>Madame, we are where we began. Allow,<br>Therefore, that in the planetary scene<br>Your disaffected flagellants, well-stuffed,<br>Smacking their muzzy bellies in parade,<br>Proud of such novelties of the sublime,<br>Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk,<br>May, merely may, madame, whip from themselves<br>A jovial hullabaloo among the spheres.<br>This will make widows wince. But fictive things<br>Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.</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=336478" data-title="A High-Toned Old Christian Woman de Wallace Stevens" data-description="Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame./Take the moral law and make a nave of it/And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,/The conscience is converted into palms,/Like windy citherns hankering for hymns./We agree in principle. That's clear. But..."></div> </div> </div>

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