Comments on: A Wisdom Reading: Stevens’ The Idea of Order at Key West http://payingattentiontothesky.com No one was paying attention to the sky... Wed, 30 May 2012 13:16:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Carl Kuss, L.C. http://payingattentiontothesky.com/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west-by-wallace-stevens/commentary/#comment-8686 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:32:06 +0000 http://payingattentiontothesky.wordpress.com/?page_id=175#comment-8686 I have just discovered your site. I am a priest in Holland. Congratulations with the profundity of all this, and with the work of putting it together. (The necessary converse: remain humble, become more humble.) In recent years I have become very much interested in Stevens, lovely stuff. I agree that the Idea of Order is a central poem of his, and full of his most lovely language. But in Stevens there is depth after depth.

Chesterton and I go way back. I find it great to find someone who puts these two together. The title I would like to give Chesterton: Doctor humilis. What do you think? Chesterton is for me the expression of wonder before the world as creation of God, childlike wonder (line connecting GKC with Therese).

Stevens explores the creative spirit in man, the other pole, and yet arriving miraculously
at the same, as in Chesterton’s archteypal story of the man who goes around the world to arrive at home, finally realizing the meaning of that home. (I love the story of Steven’s baptism, hope it’s true, pray for his soul, and all souls.)

God bless you, And do your best to let his work be done! (Tough job, but worthwhile) Pray that I do the same.

In Christ,
Fr Carl Kuss, L.C.

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