Wallace Stevens Quote

Eye without lid, mind without any dream — These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy,
Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale
Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a bird Of stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you
And you, bethou him and bethou. It is
A sound like any other. It will end.

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