Tonight the lilacs magnify
The easy passion, the ever-ready love
Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute.
We encounter in the dead middle of the night
The purple odor, the abundant bloom.


Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942) - It Must Change

Wallace Stevens Quotes

Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute....

Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute....

Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute....

Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breathe An odor evoking nothing, absolute....