A quotation from Robert Lowell in this journal —
From “Epilogue,” in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day , 1977:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
….
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination….
Lowell’s stepdaughter published a memoir, Why Not Say What Happened? , on October 19th, 2010.
What happened in this journal on that date was “Savage Logic and the New York Lottery.”
That post includes the quoted rhetorical question
“Is it a genuine demolition of the walls which seem to separate mind from mind…?”
Here is the context of October 19th—
For a different, and to me more interesting, context for the “walls” question, see Party Phone (August 31st, 2006).