{"id":1683,"date":"2012-08-02T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2012-08-02T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T16:05:18","slug":"the-house-was-quiet-and-the-world-was-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-house-was-quiet-and-the-world-was-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"The House Was Quiet And The World was Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wallace Stevens<\/p>\n<p>The house was quiet and the world was calm.<br \/>\nThe reader became the book; and summer night<\/p>\n<p>Was like the conscious being of the book.<br \/>\nThe house was quiet and the world was calm.<\/p>\n<p>The words were spoken as if there was no book,<br \/>\nExcept that the reader leaned above the page,<\/p>\n<p>Wanted to lean, wanted much to be<br \/>\nThe scholar to whom his book is true, to whom<\/p>\n<p>The summer night is like a perfection of thought.<br \/>\nThe house was quiet because it had to be.<\/p>\n<p>The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:<br \/>\nThe access of perfection to the page.<\/p>\n<p>And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,<br \/>\nIn which there is no other meaning, itself<\/p>\n<p>Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself<br \/>\nIs the reader leaning late and reading there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on July 29, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wallace Stevens The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet and the world was calm. The words were spoken as if there was no book, Except that the reader leaned above the page, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}