Title: Aphorisms
First published: 1982
Description: **1**
A poet is an observer who comments. 
**6**
Science is a direction towards the specific; art is a direction towards the individual. Science explains; art exemplifies.
13
Any observation occurs on three levels: object, perception of object, perception. These roughly correspond to what it is, what you think it is, what you think. 
**8** 
Time is an eternal present forming and re-forming experience in the paradox of change. 
**27**
Civilization in any age is a movement from the automatic to the voluntary. Progress, on the other hand, is a refinement in technology.
**40**
I imagine three planes of existence: awareness, knowledge, music. 
**48**
The universe is an idea we inhabit.
Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms
People: Wallace Stevens