Beyond the Fire

“Who Needs a White Cube These Days?”
 — Headline in today’s New York Times

“That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire…“
 — Poem title, Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
                                           “… Sleep realized
Was the whiteness that is the ultimate intellect,
A diamond jubilance beyond the fire,

That gives its power to the wild-ringed eye.”

— Wallace Stevens,
   “The Owl in the Sarcophagus” III 13-16,
    from The Auroras of Autumn, 1950

Related material:
The five entries ending on Christmas, 2005.