* Frank O’Hara:
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Stanza 2
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The enthroned
Photography shows this:
if we can attain to becoming an image, we can attain to becoming a self — that is, an object of perception knowably independent of its perceiver. What an idol communicates is only between itself and the god that speaks to itself through it. Before the idol, we perceivers are to learn to stop knowing and only see.
Satellite of light
Gautier
Sans prendre garde à l’ouragan
Qui fouettait mes vitres fermées,
Moi, j’ai fait Émaux et Camées.
Aid to reflection: the wordless
You thought you could know. You thought that words wouldn’t be needed between you and the sight that had entered you. You thought you could tread the green plane.
But between you and the plane was you, reflected back.
A note about German poetics
Rainer Maria Rilke was not only a man of good taste,
he would have been a man of good flavor.
