MVV on poetry

While it wasn't exactly central to his talk this evening, Michael Van Valkenburgh cited a poem by Wallace Stevens called Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. I believe that the quote he referenced was:

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

But you might want to read the whole poem.

And I've topped this post with the photo of Robert Rauschenberg's Migration, which was referenced in the talk too.