Beyond the Fire
“Who Needs a White Cube These Days?”
— Headline in today’s New York Times
“That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire…“
— Poem title, Gerard Manley Hopkins
“… Sleep realized
Was the whiteness that is the ultimate intellect,
A diamond jubilance beyond the fire,
That gives its power to the wild-ringed eye.”
— Wallace Stevens,
“The Owl in the Sarcophagus” III 13-16,
from The Auroras of Autumn, 1950
Related material:
The five entries ending on Christmas, 2005.