And, finally: Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon, The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
The last stanza is often cited as a sort of thesis statement for Stevens's idea that the "order" of poetry is the best way to articulate meaning in a fractured, chaotic world: Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon, The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
"Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words," Carr writes, with typical eloquence.
Poetry: "I'm adrift in a sea of words, my boat / is cardboard pinned together with newspaper headlines".
A girl sails a raft across a sea of words to the home of a small boy.
A big story must justify its length, one way or another; Saul Bellow said of Little Dorrit, "That sea of words is a sea, a force of nature.
The lexicon, A Sea of Words, arrived just after I'd finished but I'm dipping in happily already in anticipation of Post Captain.
Former teacher Tim Rylands is on a mission to help children and young people to unlock their imaginations so they can "take off on a sea of words".
AS an undergraduate at Harvard a quarter-century ago -- pardon me while I take a pinch of snuff -- I swam in a sea of words.
With these at your side, the sea of words and images the British Library has put online will start to resolve into cogent arguments.
