Wallace Stevens (Уоллес Стивенс)
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird’s cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind. The sun was rising at six, No longer a battered panache above snow... It would have been outside. It was not from the vast ventriloquism Of sleep’s faded papier-m^ach’e... The sun was coming from the outside. That scrawny cry&mdasp;It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.
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