The Changing Light at Sandover Quotes

“Graves claims there were Not seven Titans but fourteen. MY DEAR CAN ONE TRUST POOR RG? A USEFUL HACK BUT HIS WHITE GODDESS? WE REMAIN I FEAR IN A MALE WORLD DESPITE HIS DRUDGERY: SO WISE OF HOMER JUST TO HAVE SAT BACK”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“Free evening, and an hour in which to write My mother—free, half sober, quite alone— Or why not telephone?…”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“BUT MAN WANTS IMMORTALITY & NATURE WANTS MANURE.”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“A NUMBER FROM OUR ORDERS AR HAD THAT SAME NUMBER POINT ONE THUS YEATS & DJ TSE DOWN ON CERTAIN SUPERSTITIOUS SCRIBES WE HAD TO APPOINT RIMBAUD HE WROTE THE WASTE LAND WE FED IT INTO THE LIKE-CLONED ELIOT And Uncle Ezra? AS IN SHAKESPEARE WE LET THE CASE REST ON A POUND OF FLESH    Thank you, that will do. NO JM FOR THE (M) OUNCE OF FLESH U CAN CLAIM AS YRS LIVES BY THESE FREQUENT CONTACTS WITH YR OWN & OTHERS’ WORK”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“MAN PLAYS A TUNE IN COLORS THE VIBRATIONS OF MUSIC LIGHT UP MACHINES. SIMPLER YET, WRITE ‘AZURE’ & THE LANGUAGE- CONDUCTING BRAIN IS FLOODED WITH A TONE OF SUMMER SKIES. THE PAINTER’S PIGMENTS ARE BLANKLY SEEN THEY CONTAIN NO LIGHT. ARE NOT PAINTINGS BLANK IN A DARK ROOM? & EVEN THE LIVE WHITE LIGHT SHED UPON THEM APPEARS BUT TO DIM THEM FURTHER Vuillard, Piero, Goya, Blake, O’Keeffe, Who lit the mind? It blinks in disbelief.”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“A BASIC PRECEPT U WILL NEED TO TAKE ON FAITH: THERE IS NO ACCIDENT”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“Dyes made from coal. The tarpits in Los Angeles… ONE OF OUR ANCHOR POINTS A COLONY IN YR DAY STILL A HUB OF POWERFUL ILLUSIONS & SO THE LEGEND OF THE CENTAUR IS THE LAST POETRY OF ATLANTIS Dinosaur, pterodactyl, bat—good Lord!”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“THE FAUST LEGEND IS AN OLD ONE BASED UPON FACT: GOD B SENT 8002 TO POPE INNOCENT VI WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO END A PLAGUE THE POPE MADE A BARGAIN: IMMORTAL LIFE WHICH DISPLEASD GOD BIOLOGY SINCE DEATH IS PRODUCTIVE. INNOCENT GIVEN THE POWER TO BLESS AWAY THE PLAGUE (BY SIMPLY TELLING THEM TO BOIL WATER) HE USED IT. IT BECAME HIS IMMORTALITY THEN AS HE LAY COMPLAINING & DYING HE CURSED ALL BARGAINS WITH”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“WE SAW THE POWER & WITH IT BUILT A GREAT GREAT GLORY A WORLD YOU CD NOT IMAGINE GOD WAS PLEASD IT WAS A SHINING CRUST OVER THE LAND & SEA WE SUSPENDED ALL LIFE IN AN OZONE LAYER WEIGHTLESS & SELFSUSTAINING CHEMICAL GLITTERING & ROOTLESS WHICH THE ATOM BUILT THAT WE FUSED GOD B TURND AGAINST HIS ARCHANGELS THEY HAD SEEN THAT WE WERE ANTIMATTER”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“UNHEEDFULL ONE 3 OF YOUR YEARES MORE WE WANT WE MUST HAVE POEMS OF SCIENCE THE WEORK FINISHT IS BUT A PROLOGUE ABSOLUTES ARE NOW NEEDED YOU MUST MAKE GOD OF SCIENCE TELL OF POWER MANS IGNORANCE FEARES THE POWER WE ARE THAT FEAR STOPS PARADISE WE SPEAK FROM WITHIN THE ATOM”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover

“Limp, chill, it shivers in the glow, as when The tenor having braved orchestral fog First sees Brünnhilde sleeping like a log. Laid on the fire, it would hesitate, Trying to think, to feel—then the elate Burst of satori, plucking final sense Boldly from inconclusive evidence.”
― James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover