Delmore Schwartz Quote

Whence, if ever, shall come the actuality
Of a voice speaking the mind's knowing,
The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,
And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,
Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,
When in the white bed all things are made.

"Sonnet: O City, City" - Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)