Let's see the very thing and nothing else.  
  Let's see it with the hottest fire of sight.  
  Burn everything not part of it to ash.  
  Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky  
  Without evasion by a single metaphor.  
  Look at it in its essential barrenness  
  And say this, this is the centre that I seek.
"Credences of Summer" - Collected Poems (1954)











