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Help! Looking for text to a poem by Wallace Stevens

Submitted by Her Alter Ego on April 21, 2006 - 9:23am.

So I was reading my New York Times from Sunday. I hadn't gotten to the Style section and Weddings and Celebrations until last night (there was nothing on T.V. until 10 pm worth watching)

I was fascinated by one wedding announcement http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/fashion/weddings/16vows.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

because it referenced an American Poet I had forgotten about: Wallace Stevens.

The poem referenced in the announcement has piqued my curiousity. If any of you out there have it in a collection or anthology, could you post it?

I am looking for Wallace Stevens's "Restatement of Romance" - it would of been part of a group of poems her wrote in the 1930s. The premise is a couple maintaining separate identities even while together. I think it is so today, that even though it was written close to a century ago, it might make a good read...and if not too dark or sarcastic, I could use it in an upcoming wedding where I have to be the pithy bridesmaid...c'mon all you smarties....

Thanks!

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I read the same article and

Submitted by Anonymous - not logged in on April 23, 2006 - 12:22am.

I read the same article and wanted to read the poem as well. Here it goes...

Re-statement of Romance
The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself

And you. Only we two may interchange
Each in the other what each has to give.
Only we two are one, not you and night,

Nor night and I, but you and I, alone,
So much alone, so deeply by ourselves,
So far beyond the casual solitudes,

That night is only the background of our selves,
Supremely true each to its separate self,
In the pale light that each upon the other throws.

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great poem!!!

Submitted by Anonymous - not logged in on April 23, 2006 - 5:10pm.

wow! I read the article too (last week...LOL) great poem

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THANK YOU ANONYMOUS POSTER FOR POEM

Submitted by Her Alter Ego on April 23, 2006 - 5:14pm.

cooooool! This is an awesome poem! Now that I have read it (and save a copy), I will post it as it's own post. Thanks!!!

I wanted it for a toast at a wedding.

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Restatement of Romance

Submitted by Anonymous - not logged in on May 5, 2006 - 2:09pm.

I read the SAME piece as well!!! and i hope to use it someday for my own wedding - -

THANK YOU!
Diana in NYC

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THANKS

Submitted by Anonymous - not logged in (not verified) on May 15, 2006 - 8:15pm.

I'd likewise been intrigued by the NYT wedding posting and recollections of Wallace Stevens but no specific knowledge of the Restatement. Stirring. Thanks for providing.

Sentimental romantic--

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poem

Submitted by Her Alter Ego on May 17, 2006 - 4:05pm.

thanks to all who have posted...I love the poem, have it on my desk!

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