Wallace Stevens Said

“Words add to the senses. The words for the dazzle
Of mica, the dithering of grass,
The Arachne integument of dead trees,
Are the eye grown larger, more intense.”

— from “Variations on a Summer Day” by Wallace Stevens

What Mary Oliver Said

Is the soul solid, like iron?
Or is it tender and breakable, like
the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl?