<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336712" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Six Significant Landscapes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>An old man sits<br>In the shadow of a pine tree<br>In China.<br>He sees larkspur,<br>Blue and white,<br>At the edge of the shadow,<br>Move in the wind.<br>His beard moves in the wind.<br>The pine tree moves in the wind.<br>Thus water flows<br>Over weeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>The night is of the colour<br>Of a woman's arm:<br>Night, the female,<br>Obscure,<br>Fragrant and supple,<br>Conceals herself.<br>A pool shines,<br>Like a bracelet<br>Shaken in a dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>I measure myself<br>Against a tall tree.<br>I find that I am much taller,<br>For I reach right up to the sun,<br>With my eye;<br>And I reach to the shore of the sea<br>With my ear.<br>Nevertheless, I dislike<br>The way ants crawl<br>In and out of my shadow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>When my dream was near the moon,<br>The white folds of its gown<br>Filled with yellow light.<br>The soles of its feet<br>Grew red.<br>Its hair filled<br>With certain blue crystallizations<br>From stars,<br>Not far off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.<br>Not all the knives of the lamp-posts,<br>Nor the chisels of the long streets,<br>Nor the mallets of the domes<br>And high towers,<br>Can carve<br>What one star can carve,<br>Shining through the grape-leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI.<br>Rationalists, wearing square hats,<br>Think, in square rooms,<br>Looking at the floor,<br>Looking at the ceiling.<br>They confine themselves<br>To right-angled triangles.<br>If they tried rhomboids,<br>Cones, waving lines, ellipses --<br>As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon --<br>Rationalists would wear sombreros.</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=336712" data-title="Six Significant Landscapes de Wallace Stevens" data-description="I./An old man sits/In the shadow of a pine tree/In China./He sees larkspur,/Blue and white,/At the edge of the shadow,/Move in the wind./His beard moves in the wind./The pine tree moves in the wind./Thus water flows/Over weeds./II./The night is of..."></div> </div> </div>

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