Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow Poem by Wallace Stevens

Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow

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My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.

The love that will not be transported
In an old, frizzled, flambeaud manner,
But muses on its eccentricity,

Is like a vivid apprehension
Of bliss beyond the mutes of plaster,
Or paper souvenirs of rapture,

Of bliss submerged beneath appearance,
In an interior ocean's rocking
Of long, capricious fugues and chorals.

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Wallace Stevens

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