What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Source: The Necessary Angel, Three Academic Pieces, no. 1 (1951; first published 1947).
-- Wallace Stevens, (Oct 2 1879-1955), US poet, author; He was noted for subtle verse of reality and imagination; won 1955 Pulitzer for Collected Poems.