Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Music #5

Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the selfsame sounds
On my spirit make a music, too.

Music is a feeling, then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,

Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,
Is music.

Wallace Stevens, "Peter Quince at the Clavier" (excerpt)