Sacerdotal Jargon
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Wallace Stevens, from
"Credences of Summer" in Transport to Summer (1947):
"Three times the concentred
In memory of the former
Till Summer folds her miracle — |
Symbols of the
thrice concentred self:
The circular symbol is from July 1.
The square symbol is from June 24,
the date of death for the former
first lady of Brazil.
"'… what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space– which he calls the mind or heart of creation– determines every function.' Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow…."
— "The Relations between Poetry and Painting" in The Necessary Angel (Knopf, 1951)